HiRn

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

HiRn is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. In English, recorded as Corner; nook; hiding-place.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • FRFrance
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Hirn 'brain'; also used for forms from Horn

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How HiRn is read(measured from records)

HiRn is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English58%

    Corner; nook; hiding-place.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German18%

    from Hirn 'brain'; also used for forms from Horn

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

    brain

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German

    brain (organ)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Übername zu mhd. hirn(e) 'Gehirn, Verstand'; wohl nach geistiger Eigenschaft oder auffälliger Stirn/Kopf. Beleg: 403.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

    Übername zu mhd. hirn 'Hirn, Kopf'; 403 Bearer.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • French14%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses HiRn in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Gustave-Adolphe Hirn, b. 1815Akseli Hirn, b. 1845Karin Hirn, b. 1869Yrjö Hirn, b. 1870Karl Hirn, b. 1872Taavi Hirn, b. 1874Theodor Hirn, b. 1879Marta Hirn, b. 1903Armin Hirn, b. 1918Laurent Hirn, b. 1963

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting HiRn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—586#3,007
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020501#45,922
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000484#42,217
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010475#45,105
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—253—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190142—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193135—

Reference works 4

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name HiRn come from?
from Hirn 'brain'; also used for forms from Horn Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
What does the name HiRn mean?
In English, Corner; nook; hiding-place.
In which country does HiRn have the most bearers?
HiRn is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “HiRn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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