Heintz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronym zu Heinrich aus Kurzform + -z(e); Konsonantenvariation z/tz, z-Formen im Süden konzentriert
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhaɪnts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heintz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 59K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 72K
- SESweden1 in 74K
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)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
5,655 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronym zu Heinrich aus Kurzform + -z(e); Konsonantenvariation z/tz, z-Formen im Süden konzentriert. 9778+1271 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heintz 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 | 5,655 | 1 in 59K | 5.7K | Heintz | 59 |
| SE Sweden | 138 | 1 in 74K | 138 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 124 | 1 in 139K | 124 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 121 | 1 in 376K | 121 | Heintz | 27 |
| BR Brazil | 89 | 1 in 2.4M | 89 | Heintz | 17 |
| NO Norway | 76 | 1 in 72K | 76 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 69 | 1 in 85K | 69 | — | — |
5,655 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Heintz 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, Kurzform zu Heinrich; zeigt dentale Affrikaten/Frikative (tz/z). Bearer count: 1271.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Heintzb. 1817DEGerman Chemist (1817-1880)
- Richard Heintzb. 1871BEBelgian painter (1871-1929)
- Henrik Heintzb. 1896HUHungarian artist (1896-1955)
- Anatol Heintzb. 1898NONorwegian paleontologist (1898-1975)
- Peter Heintzb. 1920CHSwiss sociologist (1920-1983)
- Wulff-Dieter Heintzb. 1930DEGerman astronomer and chess teacher (1930-2006)
- Natascha Heintzb. 1930NONorwegian paleontologist (1930-2025)
- Philip Heintzb. 1991DEGerman swimmer
- Dominique Heintzb. 1993DEGerman footballer
- Ulrich HeintzUSGerman-American physicist
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.7K | #6,067 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.6K | #5,701 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,099 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 138 | #5,608 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 124 | #15,951 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 121 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 89 | #69,079 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 76 | #19,395 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 69 | #7,917 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Heintz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhaɪnts/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Heintz mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Heinrich aus Kurzform + -z(e); Konsonantenvariation z/tz, z-Formen im Süden konzentriert.
- In which country does Heintz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.7 thousand people named Heintz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heintz.
- Where is Heintz most common?
- Heintz is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Heintz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,655 people named Heintz in 2010, about 1 in 59 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/heintzThe 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, “Heintz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.