Hien
Just 53 people in Poland carry Hien, and they split almost evenly between women and men: one of the rare names here that reads as truly unisex. The name runs to "virtuous, gentle".
Hien Pronunciation
Hien is pronounced KHYEN (/xjɛn/).
What Hien means
Where Hien comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Hien reached Poland with Vietnamese families, one of the country's larger migrant communities. In its home spelling the name wears a mark it loses on Polish forms: Hiền. The short meaning holds steady, virtuous and gentle, which a Polish reader meets as cnotliwy, łagodny.
The root is Sino-Vietnamese. Behind Hiền stands the character 賢, read xián in Mandarin, a word for a person who is worthy and good. In Vietnam the name goes to girls and to boys, and older bearers often carry it as a middle name rather than a first. The gentleness in it settled close to the virtue, so the two senses keep company.
Picture the four letters in a class register in Warsaw. Short and plain. A teacher finds no diacritic to drop. Whatever changes on the way from Hiền to Hien, the name still means virtuous and gentle.
How many people are named Hien
1 in 751461 women in Poland is named Hien. 53 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5144 among female names.
Hien as a middle name
Hien is a first name for 53 women in Poland and a middle name for another 41, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1078th, between Gabryjela (41) and Josefine (41).
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#1076 Faye41
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#1077 Gabryjela41
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#1078 Hien41
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#1079 Josefine41
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#1080 Julieta41