Entry № 4255 · Other origin

Hien Hien — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEE-en /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Gentle / virtuous (Vietnamese feminine)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Vietnamese)

A name that means "gentle / virtuous (vietnamese feminine)".

Hien is from the Vietnamese Hiền (gentle, virtuous, kind). Hien is one of the Vietnamese feminine names expressing the Confucian virtue of hiền — central to traditional Vietnamese (and East Asian) moral philosophy alongside nhân (humaneness), trí (wisdom), and dũng (courage). The Vietnamese feminine ideal of hiền lành (gentle and kind) is one of the cultural virtues celebrated in Vietnamese literature and family naming.

Gentle / virtuous (Vietnamese).

The name in its native script.

Hiền
Transliteration
Hiền
Pronunciation
/ ˈhiː.ɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hien stands.

Hien does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Hiens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hien
Vietnamese gentle / virtuous.

Names connected to Hien.

The number behind Hien.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hien reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.