Hêng

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hêng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From h and eng.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 19K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 76K
  • USUnited States1 in 87K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,819 people, 2010

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Heng in US United States, NO Norway.

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)

From h and eng.

Sources 5

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hêng 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.

Where Hêng is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,8191 in 87K4.2KHeng16
NO Norway2821 in 19K282Heng7
FI Finland731 in 76K73—1
BR Brazil631 in 3.4M63—1
CH Switzerland581 in 145K58—2
GY Guyana21 in 375K2——

3,819 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

500100015002000Linji Yixuan, b. 850Xing Yunlu, b. 1549Michael Ying, b. 1949Hsing Feng, b. 1954Xing Lin, b. 1979Xing Huina, b. 1984Yan Dong Xing, b. 1985Xing Aiying, b. 1989Xing Yu, b. 1991
  • Linji Yixuanb. 850not in their usual nameChinese Chan Buddhist monk (?–866)
  • Xing Yunlub. 1549not in their usual nameChinese astronomers
  • Michael Yingb. 1949CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong businessman
  • Hsing Fengb. 1954TWnot in their usual nameTaiwanese actor
  • Xing Linb. 1979CNnot in their usual nameChinese triathlete
  • Xing Huinab. 1984CNnot in their usual nameChinese long distance runner
  • Yan Dong Xingb. 1985CNnot in their usual namebicycle racer
  • Xing Aiyingb. 1989CNnot in their usual namebadminton player
  • Xing Yub. 1991CNnot in their usual nameChinese archer
  • Roman XingCNnot in their usual nameChinese actor

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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hêng under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hêng mean, and where does it come from?
From h and eng. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
Is Hêng a male or female name?
Hêng is a male 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.
In which country does Hêng have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Hêng, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heng.
Where is Hêng most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hêng is densest in Norway — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hêng?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,819 people named Hêng in 2010, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.

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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, “Hêng”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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