Hina
Hina was given to 31 girls in 2025, #4,489 among girls’ names; 744 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hina mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Hina is “a female or (sometimes) male given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the sense “prostrate; gray” (hina).
hina (“prostrate; gray”)
/ˈhi.na/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hina?
#4,489 among girls’ names, 2025
Hina rose from #17,457 in 2015 to #4,489 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 19.3 per million.
31 babies in 2025, the peak
Hina peaked in 2025, when 31 girls were given it, #4,489 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 29 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,489 | 19.3 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,702 | 17.9 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,040 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,091 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,831 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,704 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,525 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,826 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,793 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,182 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #17,457 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,325 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,644 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,231 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,418 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,606 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,155 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,764 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,008 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,648 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,629 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 28 | #4,585 | 15.3 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,468 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,432 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,302 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,964 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,835 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,711 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,614 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,569 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,579 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,285 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,118 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,870 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,130 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,727 | 10.3 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,915 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,148 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,803 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,182 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,809 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,966 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,321 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,023 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,456 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,198 | 8.1 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,825 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,348 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,157 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,764 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hina, and how old are they?
An estimated 731 Americans named Hina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 14 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,945 people named Hina (2,937 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 618 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hina and names like it
- Compare Hina and RaisaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHina peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hina since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Hina: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Hina.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Hina alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with HMost given first.