Heineck
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of German Heinecke
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heineck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 216K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 437K
- DKDenmark1 in 68Kas Heinecke
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Heineck 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 216K (inferred from the name graph)
982 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Variant of German Heinecke. This spelling of the name is found mainly in Hungary.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heineck 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 982 | 1 in 216K | 982 | — | — |
| US United States | 912as Heinecke | 1 in 365K | 938 | — | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 104 | 1 in 437K | 104 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 86as Heinecke | 1 in 68K | 86 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 31as Heinecke | 1 in 271K | 31 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30as Heinecke | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 20as Heinecke | 1 in 273K | 20 | — | — |
982 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Heineck 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, wohl patronymisch zu Heinrich; Belege/Träger: 149. Lautlich nah, evtl. auch slawisch beeinflusst.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Otto Heineckb. 1860botanist
- Betty Amalie Marie Heineckb. 1865CZHolocaust victim (born 1865)
- Guido Heineckb. 1970economist (Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg)
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 982 | #9,410 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 265 | #77,921 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 253 | #76,029 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 242 | #74,398 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 104 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Heineck come from?
- Variant of German Heinecke. This spelling of the name is found mainly in Hungary. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Heineck mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant of German Heinecke.
- In which country does Heineck have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 982 people named Heineck, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Heineck most common?
- Heineck is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 216 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Heineck?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 982 people named Heineck, about 1 in 216 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/heineckThe 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, “Heineck”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.