Hejna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a Polonized form of the Germanic personal name Heine (see Heinrich, Henry)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɛdʒnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hejna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 12K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 50K
- NONorway1 in 161K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
863 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from a Polonized form of the Germanic personal name Heine (see Heinrich, Henry).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hejna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #673 | 863 | 1 in 12K | 863 | Hejna | 45 |
| PL Poland | — | 772 | 1 in 50K | 396 | Hejna | 31 |
| US United States | — | 365 | 1 in 911K | 369 | Hejna | 54 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Hejna | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | Hejna | 4 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 11 | 1 in 495K | 11 | Hejna | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | — |
863 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Antonín Hejnab. 1920CZCzechoslovak archaeologist
- Jiří Hejnab. 1921CZCzech graphic, illustrator, painter and artist (1921-2011)
- Jaroslav Hejnab. 1923CZCzechoslovak politician (1923-1994)
- Jiří Hejnab. 1930CZexecuted member of anti-communist resistance (1930-1952)
- Ivan Hejnab. 1953CZCzech scriptwriter
- Roman Hejnab. 1963CZCzech politician
- Jakub Hejnab. 1976CZdirector and filmmaker
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 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 863 | #1,622 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 862 | #1,606 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 396 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 396 | #8,383 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 376 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 376 | #8,653 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 369 | #52,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 365 | #56,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 303 | #69,752 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #33,325 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 5 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Hejna mean, and where does it come from?
- from a Polonized form of the Germanic personal name Heine (see Heinrich, Henry). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hejna?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛdʒnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hejna have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 863 people named Hejna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hejna.
- Where is Hejna most common?
- Hejna is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hejna?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 863 people named Hejna, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Hejna compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Hejna is the 673rd most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hejnaThe 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, “Hejna” — the 673rd most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.