Heilbronn
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Heilbronn’, Württemberg, Germany; literally ‘holy well’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heilbronn is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 32Kas היילברון(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 69Kas Heilbron
- CRCosta Rica1 in 121Kas Heilbron
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 Heilbronn 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)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
380 named Heilbrun, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, as היילברון
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled היילברון in IL Israel, RO Romania, HU Hungary.
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)
‘person from Heilbronn’, Württemberg, Germany; literally ‘holy well’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heilbronn 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 | 380as Heilbrun | 1 in 875K | 406 | — | 2 |
| IL Israel | 270as היילברון | 1 in 32K | 270 | היילברון | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | 250as Heilbron | 1 in 69K | 250 | — | 1 |
| RO Romania | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | היילברון | 2 |
| HU Hungary | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | היילברון | 3 |
| CR Costa Rica | 42as Heilbron | 1 in 121K | 42 | — | — |
380 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Heilbronn 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, Jewish surname from Heilbronn
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)
- Elisabeth Luise Bieb. 1875PLnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1875)
- Isak Heilbronnb. 1880DEDr. phil. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1912
- Alfred Heilbronnb. 1885DETurkish-German botanist (1885–1961)
- Max Heilbronnb. 1902FRParisian businessman whose art collection was looted by the Nazis and French Resistance fighter (1902-1998)
- Hans Heilbronnb. 1908CAGerman mathematician (1908-1975)
- Mekpare Heilbronnb. 1908botanical collector (1908 - )
- Éliane Fischerb. 1925FRnot in their usual namelawyer
- Ginette Moulinb. 1927FRnot in their usual nameFrench businessperson
- Pierre Heilbronnb. 1974FRFrench official
- Louis Heilbronnb. 1988USFrench photographer
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 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Heilbronn mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Heilbronn’, Württemberg, Germany; literally ‘holy well’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Heilbronn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 380 people named Heilbrun, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Heilbronn most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Heilbronn itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people named היילברון.
- How common is the name Heilbronn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 380 people named Heilbrun in 2010, about 1 in 875 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heilbronnThe 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, “Heilbronn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.