Heigl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Diminutive surname; variant cluster showing monophthong vs diphthong vowel alternation (e/i/äu/u/ü) in -g(k)/-ch diminutives
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hajçl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heigl is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminutive surname; variant cluster showing monophthong vs diphthong vowel alternation (e/i/äu/u/ü) in -g(k)/-ch diminutives. Bearer count: 2524.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Heigl 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.
In German, zu Hugo; 1753 Belege. Muster: Kurzform + -l.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Diminutiv-/Hypokoristikum-Surname mit -l; Bearer count: 1753.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In cdo, BAER BY blocks for printing
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Thomas Heiglb. 1771DEGerman politician
- Michael Heiglb. 1816DEGerman robber (1816–1857)
- Paul Heiglb. 1887ATAustrian librarian, Nazi SS (1887–1945)
- Hubertus-Maria Ritter von Heiglb. 1897DEGerman general (1897–1985)
- Willy Heiglb. 1904DEGerman politician (1904-1973)
- Hans Heiglb. 1921ATAustrian politician (1921-2002)
- Richard Heiglb. 1971DEfounder of German development/consulting company Hallo Welt! & maker of the MediaWiki distribution BlueSpice
- Katherine Heiglb. 1978USAmerican actress (born 1978)
- Nadja Heiglb. 1996ATAustrian cyclist
- Nikolaus Heiglb. 2003DEGerman ice hockey player (born 2003)
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 444 | #50,816 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 422 | #49,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 415 | #47,939 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 36 | #23,866 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 14 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 12 | #29,223 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #59,479 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #46,493 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #52,258 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #123,003 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Heigl come from?
- Diminutive surname; variant cluster showing monophthong vs diphthong vowel alternation (e/i/äu/u/ü) in -g(k)/-ch diminutives. Bearer count: 2524. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Heigl?
- A machine transcription gives /hajçl/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Heigl mean?
- Recorded meaning: Diminutive surname; variant cluster showing monophthong vs diphthong vowel alternation (e/i/äu/u/ü) in -g(k)/-ch diminutives.
- In which country does Heigl have the most bearers?
- Heigl is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heiglThe 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, “Heigl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.