Heidelberg

loc · Latin script

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

Heidelberg is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany. In German, recorded as Heidelberg (a city and urban district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, administrative seat of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district).

rarermore common
  • DEGermany
  • AUAustralia
  • PLPoland

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from any of the places named Heidelberg, of which the best-known example is in Baden.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Heidelberg is read(measured from records)

Heidelberg is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • German30%

    Heidelberg (a city and urban district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, administrative seat of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English8.5%

    town. PA. S. Africa; college. OH

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Heidelberg is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • habitational name from any of the places named Heidelberg, of which the best-known example is in Baden.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Polish, Heidelberg (a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Croatian, sveučilišni grad u Njemačkoj

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

185019001950Helene Heidelberg, b. 1859Albert Hetényi-Heidelberg, b. 1875Alice Heidelberg, b. 1895Götz Heidelberg, b. 1923Sven Hansen Heidelberg, b. 1950

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Heidelberg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,262
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#18,143
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.4K#19,279
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200756#28,739
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—44#28,508
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202115—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—14#31,563
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202113#28,364
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—6#103,336
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#262,051

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Heidelberg come from?
habitational name from any of the places named Heidelberg, of which the best-known example is in Baden. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Heidelberg mean?
In German, Heidelberg (a city and urban district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, administrative seat of Rhein-Neckar-Kreis district)
In which country does Heidelberg have the most bearers?
Heidelberg is most frequently recorded in Germany.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heidelberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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