Hien — unisex name

What the Data Says About Hien

The Social Security Administration has registered 327 babies named Hien between 1976 and 2010, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hien currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Hien is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 305 additional births since 1979.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hien performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 159 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Hien shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 59 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Hien in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hien in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 327 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.