Heiler
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heiler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 'veterinary surgeon'; from heilen 'to heal'.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 233K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 764K
- ARArgentina1 in 798K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 233K (inferred from the name graph)
284 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
'veterinary surgeon'; from heilen 'to heal'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heiler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 284 | 1 in 1.2M | 762 | Heiler | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 173 | 1 in 1.2M | 173 | Heiler | 29 |
| AR Argentina | 57 | 1 in 798K | 57 | Heiler | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 9 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 14 | 1 in 764K | 14 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | — | 1 |
284 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Heiler is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
occupational name for someone who castrated animals, from an agent derivative of heilen ‘to cut’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, comparative degree of heil
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname für den (Tier-)Arzt; im Mhd. auch 'Arzt' belegt, hier wohl nur vereinzelt. Bearer count: 852.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname: 'Heiler, Arzt'; auch in Orts-/Verbreitungsbelegen als Typname genannt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname für Tierkastrator; Euphemismus-/Funktionsname.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Günter Heilerb. 1645DEGerman theologian (1645-1707)
- Anne Marie Heilerb. 1889DEGerman politician (1889-1979)
- Friedrich Heilerb. 1892DEGerman theologian (1892–1967)
- Oscar Heilerb. 1906DEGerman actor (1906–1995)
- Josef Heilerb. 1920DEGerman politician (1920-2009)
- Siegfried Heilerb. 1938DEGerman statistician
- Ala Heilerb. 1953DEGerman jazz musician, entrepreneur, golf coach
- Walter Heilerb. 1954DEGerman politician
- Rudolf Heilerb. 1955DEGerman politician
- Terence David HeilerNZagricultural engineer at Lincoln University in New Zealand
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 26 | #99,072 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 21 | #48,621 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1981 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #35,313 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #33,009 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Heiler mean, and where does it come from?
- 'veterinary surgeon'; from heilen 'to heal' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Heiler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 284 people named Heiler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heiler.
- Where is Heiler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Heiler is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 233 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Heiler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 284 people named Heiler in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heilerThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Heiler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.