Hénaff

surname · Latin script

/enaf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hénaff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance≈1 in 21K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain≈1 in 695K
  • CACanada≈1 in 2.1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,200 people, est.

Sources
211 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Henaff in FR France, US United States, CA Canada and 5 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hénaff 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.

Where Hénaff is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈3,200 est.≈1 in 21K248Henaff211
ES Spain≈72 est.≈1 in 695K—Henaff1
US United States≈37 est.≈1 in 9.1MlistedHenaff37
DE Germany≈21 est.≈1 in 3.9M—Henaff14
CA Canada≈18 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Henaff15
NL Netherlands≈8 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Henaff2
BE Belgium41 in 2.9M4Henaff6
SG Singapore≈2 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Henaff4

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hénaff is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Henaff

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Henaff

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Henaff

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Henaff

6 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Jean Hénaff, b. 1859Eugène Hénaff, b. 1904Jean-Jacques Hénaff, b. 1938Marcel Hénaff, b. 1942Marie-Claire Henaff, b. 1956Loïc Hénaff, b. 1971

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Hénaff, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Hénaff
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20084#119,271

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Hénaff?
A machine transcription gives /enaf/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Hénaff have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Hénaff in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henaff.
How common is the name Hénaff?
In Belgium, the national register counted 4 people named Hénaff in 2008, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.

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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, “Hénaff”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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