Hyena
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the family Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hyena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 20Kas 혜나(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 273M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hyena 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
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 273M (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 named 혜나, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled 혜나 in KR South Korea.
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(measured from records)
Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the family Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hyena 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 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 혜나 | 24 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 273M | Hyena | 5 |
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.
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)
Hyena is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, hyena, any member of the family Hyaenidae
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, alternative spelling of iena
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, hyena (large carnivore)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kim Hye-nab. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Jeong Hye-nab. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean comics artist
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hyena mean, and where does it come from?
- Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the family Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Hyena a male or female name?
- Hyena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Hyena?
- In the etymology graph, Hyaena is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Hyena have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named 혜나 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hyena?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,600 people in South Korea have 혜나 as their first given name, about 1 in 20 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hyenaThe 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, “Hyena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.