Héiner
given name · Latin script
Héiner is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from a short form of Heinrich.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.7K
- COColombia≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Heiner in DE Germany, PE Peru, CR Costa Rica and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)patronymic from a short form of Heinrich.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Héiner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #510 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Heiner | 165 |
| CO Colombia | #997 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 2 | Heiner | 54 |
| CR Costa Rica | #201 | 1,780 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.8K | Heiner | 41 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Heiner | 43 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 18 | Heiner | 36 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Héiner mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from a short form of Heinrich. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Nordic Names.
- Which countries have the most people named Héiner?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Héiner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heiner. After it come Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Héiner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Héiner is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Héiner?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 1,780 people named Héiner, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Héiner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Héiner is the 510th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Héiner?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A9inerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Héiner” — the 510th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.