Hien
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hien has been given to 632 babies in the U.S. since 1976. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1984, with 30 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% girls, 48% boys all-time.
Babies named Hien, 2010
1 in 739,000
Hien over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Hien over time
In 2016, Hien went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Hien?
Hien had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 739,000
- 5 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 512,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hien sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hiens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hien was born before 1988 — so the typical Hien is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 48.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 327
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (159).
Is Hien rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (30)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.3% average annual change
Spellings of Hien
Hien is not the most common spelling — Helen is, with 85.1% against Hien's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Hien is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Hien was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 271,403 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hien has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Hien is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Hien was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 415,064 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hien has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Hien around the world
Where Hien ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1991–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Hien by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Hien
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hien
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.