Hellinger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from a place called Helling or Hellingen
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhɛlɪŋɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Hellinger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 118K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 130K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 420K
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 Hellinger itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
693 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled הלינגר in IL Israel.
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)habitational name for someone from a place called Helling or Hellingen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hellinger 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 | 693 | 1 in 480K | 763 | Hellinger | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 121 | 1 in 1.7M | 121 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 91 | 1 in 118K | 91 | — | — |
| IL Israel | 79as הלינגר | 1 in 110K | 79 | הלינגר | 13 |
| RO Romania | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 287K | — | Hellinger | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 26 | 1 in 130K | 26 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 13as Helinger | 1 in 325K | 13 | — | — |
693 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Hellinger is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from place name Hellingen
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Ernst Hellingerb. 1883USGerman mathematician (1883–1950)
- Mark Hellingerb. 1903USAmerican journalist, critic and film producer (1903–1947)
- Martin Hellingerb. 1904DEGerman dentist and SS officer in several concentration camps (1904-1988)
- Bert Hellingerb. 1925DEcatholic priest and psychotherapist (1925–2019)
- Johannes Hellingerb. 1935DEGerman orthopedic surgeon (1935-2022)
- Karin Hellingerb. 1942DEGerman badminton player
- Meirav Hellingerb. 1989ILIsraeli songwriter
- Sascha Hellingerb. 1995DEGerman YouTuber and streamer
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 763 | #29,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 748 | #32,872 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 693 | #33,036 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 121 | #54,790 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 91 | #18,162 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 91 | #8,087 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 26 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Hellinger mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from a place called Helling or Hellingen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hellinger?
- In German /ˈhɛlɪŋɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Hellinger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 693 people named Hellinger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hellinger.
- Where is Hellinger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hellinger is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 118 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hellinger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 693 people named Hellinger in 2010, about 1 in 480 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hellingerThe 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, “Hellinger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.