Hyen
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hyen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 700as 주현(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 970Kas Hyeon
- MOMacao≈1 in 12Kas 주현
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hyen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 700 (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 named 주현, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Korea, est., as 주현
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hyeon in US United States, CN China, NL Netherlands, 현 in KR South Korea, VN Vietnam and 주현 in MO Macao.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hyen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #62 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 700 | 89K | 현 | 156 |
| KP North Korea | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 6 | — | 12 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Hyeon | 10 |
| US United States | — | 343as Hyeon | 1 in 970K | 211 | Hyeon | 160 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 925K | — | 현 | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Hyeon | 3 |
| MO Macao | #338 | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | 주현 | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 235K | listed | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: KOSIS 2015 Census — surname population with hanja variants; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hyen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, to hie (travel at great speed or with great haste)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Hyen a male or female name?
- Hyen is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Hyen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named 주현 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hyen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 343 people named Hyeon in 2020, about 1 in 970 thousand residents.
- How common is Hyen compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Hyen is the 62nd most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hyen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hyenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hyen” — the 62nd most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.