Haefner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Hafner. This is the normal term for a potter in southwestern Germany, and the surname is largely confined to this area of the country
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Haefner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Belize it is the 29th most common surname.
- CLChile≈1 in 970Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 2.2Kas Hafner
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.7Kas Hafner
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Haefner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 334 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 966K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 named Hafner, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hafner in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 3 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)variant of Hafner. This is the normal term for a potter in southwestern Germany, and the surname is largely confined to this area of the country.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Haefner is found
(measured from records)Haefner 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 | #418 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | listed | Hafner | 151 |
| US United States | — | 5,187as Hafner | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Hafner | 334 |
| AT Austria | #191 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Hafner | 91 |
| CH Switzerland | #278 | 2,035as Hafner | 1 in 4.1K | 2K | Hafner | 73 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 969as Hafner | 1 in 2.2K | 969 | Hafner | 12 |
| BZ Belize | #29 | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Hafner | 1 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 966K | 1 | Haefner | 16 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)- Walter Haefnerb. 1910CHSwiss businessman (1910-2012)
- Mickey Haefnerb. 1912USAll American baseball player
- Marsha Haefnerb. 1951USpolitician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Haefner mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Hafner. This is the normal term for a potter in southwestern Germany, and the surname is largely confined to this area of the country. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Haefner?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Hafner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Haefner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,187 people named Hafner in 2010, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Haefner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Haefner is the 418th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haefnerThe 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, “Haefner” — the 418th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.