Heinrich
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Germanic Heinrich (haim 'home' + rīc 'power'); plate maps vowel variation in surname forms derived from Heinrich
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hajnʁɪç/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heinrich is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 87th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 394(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.7K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.4K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 394 (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
From Germanic Heinrich (haim 'home' + rīc 'power'); plate maps vowel variation in surname forms derived from Heinrich.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heinrich 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 | #87 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 394 | — | Heinrich | 226 |
| ZA South Africa | #910 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Heinrich | 89 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Heinrich | 14 |
| AT Austria | #287 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 330 | Heinrich | 113 |
| CH Switzerland | #210 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 809 | Heinrich | 85 |
| US United States | — | 1,089 | 1 in 305K | 8.6K | Heinrich | 282 |
| DK Denmark | — | 508 | 1 in 12K | 508 | — | 2 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Heinrich 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.
In German, from the Germanic given name Heinrich, from *heim- 'home, estate' + *rīc- 'power, ruler'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from Germanic *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'powerful, ruler'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, German surname type showing e~ei vowel variation; bearer count 18,765.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Names from Heinrich; plate shows ei/e and short-vowel variants.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
from personal name Heinrich, composed of the Germanic elements haim, heim ‘home’ -I- ric ‘power’. In the Middle Ages this was the most popular of personal names in Germany. See also Henry.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Henry I the Fowlerb. 876DEnot in their usual nameKing of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936)
- Henry IIIb. 1016DEnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Emperor
- Henry VIb. 1165DEnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197
- Johann Pestalozzib. 1746CHnot in their usual nameSwiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746-1827)
- Robert Kochb. 1843DEnot in their usual nameGerman physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
- Heinrich Hertzb. 1857DEGerman physicist (1857–1894)
- Otto Dixb. 1891DEnot in their usual nameGerman painter and printmaker (1891–1969)
- Heinrich Himmlerb. 1900DEGerman Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Heinrich Böllb. 1917DEGerman writer (1917–1985)
- Helmut Schmidtb. 1918DEnot in their usual nameChancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
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)
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 86 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,675 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 508 | #484 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 330 | #422 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 21 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 11 | #433 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4 | #11,675 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Heinrich mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germanic Heinrich (haim 'home' + rīc 'power'); plate maps vowel variation in surname forms derived from Heinrich. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- What are other forms of the name Heinrich?
- In the etymology graph, Enrique, Henry and Harry are forms of the same name in other languages; Heinz and Heiner are recorded short or pet forms.
- In which country does Heinrich have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 204 thousand people named Heinrich in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heinrich.
- How do you pronounce Heinrich?
- A machine transcription gives /hajnʁɪç/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Heinrich a male or female name?
- Heinrich 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.
- How common is the name Heinrich?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,089 people named Heinrich in 2020, about 1 in 305 thousand residents.
- How common is Heinrich compared with other names?
- In Germany, Heinrich is the 87th most common given name of 156,202 given names 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/heinrichThe 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, “Heinrich” — the 87th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.