Hentges
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hentges is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Hendrik (see Henry 1), with the diminutive ending -tje.
- USUnited States1 in 209K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 215K
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 209K (inferred from the name graph)
1,593 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from a short form of the personal name Hendrik (see Henry 1), with the diminutive ending -tje.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hentges 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 | — | 1,593 | 1 in 209K | 1.6K | Hentges | 32 |
| BR Brazil | — | 987 | 1 in 215K | 987 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | 8 | Hentges | 54 |
| BE Belgium | — | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | Hentges | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| LU Luxembourg | #432 | — | — | — | Hentges | 12 |
1,593 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Peter Hentgesb. 1714DE(1714-1782)
- André Hentgesb. 1843LU(1843-1920)
- Pierre Hentgesb. 1853LULuxembourgish politician (1853-1918)
- François Hentgesb. 1885LULuxembourgian artistic gymnast (1885-1965)
- Pierre Hentgesb. 1890LULuxembourgian artistic gymnast (1890-1975)
- Roby Hentgesb. 1940LULuxembourgish cyclist
- Eric Hentgesb. 1952USAmerican non-profit executive
- Gudrun Hentgesb. 1964DEGerman political scientist (1964–)
- Sam Hentgesb. 1996USAmerican baseball player
- Sam Hentgesb. 1999USAmerican ice hockey player
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hentges mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from a short form of the personal name Hendrik (see Henry 1), with the diminutive ending -tje. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hentges have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Hentges, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hentges.
- Where is Hentges most common?
- Hentges is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 209 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hentges?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,593 people named Hentges in 2010, about 1 in 209 thousand residents.
- How common is Hentges compared with other names?
- In Luxembourg, Hentges is the 432nd most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hentgesThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Hentges” — the 432nd most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.