Karl-Heinz

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Karl-Heinz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 365(inferred from the name graph)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 5.8K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈220,000 people, est.

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 365 (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Karlheinz in US United States.

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 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karl-Heinz 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 Karl-Heinz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#62≈220,000 est.≈1 in 3651Karl-Heinz178
AT Austria#391≈1,500 est.≈1 in 5.8K107Karl-Heinz65
US United States—3061 in 1.1M306Karlheinz108
CH Switzerland—≈280 est.≈1 in 30K—Karl-Heinz31
ZA South Africa—≈250 est.≈1 in 224K—Karl-Heinz15
BE Belgium—≈240 est.≈1 in 49K—Karl-Heinz21
SE Sweden—1121 in 91K112—10

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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Karl-Heinz is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Polish, Czech

    Also written Karlheinz

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Karlheinz

  • Croatian given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Karlheinz, Karlhajnc, Karl-Hajnc, Карлхајнц, Карл-Хајнц

  • Danish given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Karlheinz

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Karlheinz

  • Russian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Switzerland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Карл-Хайнц, Карлхайнц, Karlheinz, Карл-Гайнц, Карл-Гейнц

  • Hungarian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Switzerland

    Also written Karlheinz

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Karlheinz

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Karlheinz

25 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)

1920194019601980Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, b. 1928Karl-Heinz Weigang, b. 1935Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, b. 1939Karl-Heinz von Hassel, b. 1939Karl-Heinz Luck, b. 1945Karl-Heinz Granitza, b. 1951Karl-Heinz Körbel, b. 1954Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, b. 1955Karlheinz Förster, b. 1958Karl-Heinz Riedle, b. 1965

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)

InformalHallo Karl-Heinz,Hi Karl-Heinz, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Karl-Heinz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2010123—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2009122—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2008121—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2011120—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012119—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2005119—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013118—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2002118—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2007117—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2004117—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2006116—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2003116—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Karl-Heinz?
A machine transcription gives /kaʁlhajnts/ (IPA) for German.
Is Karl-Heinz a male or female name?
Karl-Heinz is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Karl-Heinz have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 219 thousand people named Karl-Heinz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Karl-Heinz.
How common is the name Karl-Heinz?
In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Karl-Heinz in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
How common is Karl-Heinz compared with other names?
In Germany, Karl-Heinz is the 62nd most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.

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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, “Karl-Heinz” — the 62nd most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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