Hejl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from hejl, hyl ‘bullfinch’, a nickname either for someone with a red nose or for a greenhorn
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɛdʒɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hejl is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CZCzechia
- DKDenmark
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)
from hejl, hyl ‘bullfinch’, a nickname either for someone with a red nose or for a greenhorn.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- CZCzechia
- DEGermany
- FRFrance
- DKDenmark
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)
Hejl 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 Czech, alternative form of hýl
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)
- Alois Hejlb. 1909CZCzech painter
- František Hejlb. 1920CZCzech historian
- Zdeněk Heylb. 1920CZnot in their usual nameCzech physician, scientist and publisher (1920-1999)
- Vilém Hejlb. 1934CZCzech translator, scriptwriter and writer
- Václav Hejlb. 1945CZCzech motorcycle racer
- Petr Hejlb. 1959CZpolitician
- Jaroslav Hejlb. 1960CZCzech councillor
- Johannes Hejlb. 1972DKDanish guitarist
- Martin Hejlb. 1980CZCzech architect and university educator
- Bohumil Hejlentomologist (died 1944)
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 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1K | #1,286 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1K | #1,278 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 697 | #34,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 644 | #35,016 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 603 | #35,342 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 109 | #5,026 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,214 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 9 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Hejl mean, and where does it come from?
- from hejl, hyl ‘bullfinch’, a nickname either for someone with a red nose or for a greenhorn. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hejl?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛdʒɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hejl have the most bearers?
- Hejl is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hejlThe 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, “Hejl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.