Heili

surname · Latin script

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

/haɪli/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Heili is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 598K
  • ESSpain1 in 6.3M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

132 people, 2010

Sources
83 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 598K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Heili 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.

Where Heili is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1321 in 2.5M142Heili83
AR Argentina761 in 598K76——
ES Spain81 in 6.3M8—1
GB United Kingdom———Heili6
PH Philippines———Heili2
AT Austria———Heili15
AG Antigua & Barbuda———Heili1

132 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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Heili is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Peru, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Heïlï

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Heili is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Icelandic, a brain

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

  • In Faroese, brain

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

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)

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)

FormalDear Heili,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Heili
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020142#126,357
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000136#118,236
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010132#129,047
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—76—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8#134,434
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Heili?
A machine transcription gives /haɪli/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Heili have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 132 people named Heili, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heili.
Where is Heili most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Heili is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 598 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Heili?
In the United States, the national register counted 132 people named Heili in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.

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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, “Heili”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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