Heesen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymischer Familienname: patronymischer Genitiv zu Hees/Heese, also Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɦeːsə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Heesen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 21K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 70K
- NONorway1 in 456K
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)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymischer Familienname: patronymischer Genitiv zu Hees/Heese, also Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname. Bearer count: 331.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world
(measured from records)Heesen 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 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Heesen | 76 |
| NL Netherlands | 804 | 1 in 21K | 804 | Heesen | 41 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Heesen | 10 |
| US United States | 117 | 1 in 2.8M | 126 | Heesen | 95 |
| FR France | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 1 | Heesen | 46 |
| NO Norway | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 601K | — | Heesen | 6 |
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 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Martha Heesenb. 1948NLDutch author, translator and writer
- Hans Heesenb. 1959NLDutch scenarist
- Bernd Heesenb. 1964DEGerman economist
- Dirk Heesenb. 1969NLDutch footballer (born 1969)
- Jeffrey Heesenb. 1990NLDutch singer
- Roy Heesenb. 1992NLDutch association football player
- Jessica Heesenb. 2000DEGerman philosopher and media ethicist
- Remco HeesenUSPh.D. Carnegie Mellon University 2016
- Raphaela HeesenGBresearcher
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 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 804 | #2,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 126 | #137,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 111 | #138,741 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #53,176 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Heesen?
- In Dutch /ɦeːsə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Heesen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymischer Familienname: patronymischer Genitiv zu Hees/Heese, also Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname.
- In which country does Heesen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Heesen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heesen.
- Where is Heesen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Heesen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Heesen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 804 people named Heesen in 2007, about 1 in 21 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/heesenThe 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, “Heesen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.