Hellinger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from a place called Helling or Hellingen
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈhɛlɪŋɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Hellinger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 118K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 130K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 420K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hellinger 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
693 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
Locally spelled הלינגר in IL Israel.
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)habitational name for someone from a place called Helling or Hellingen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Hellinger is found
(measured from records)Hellinger 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 | 693 | 1 in 480K | 763 | Hellinger | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 121 | 1 in 1.7M | 121 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 91 | 1 in 118K | 91 | — | — |
| IL Israel | 79as הלינגר | 1 in 110K | 79 | הלינגר | 13 |
| UY Uruguay | 26 | 1 in 130K | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 20 | 1 in 420K | 20 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 13as Helinger | 1 in 325K | 13 | — | — |
693 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 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)Hellinger 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, from place name Hellingen
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Ernst Hellingerb. 1883USGerman mathematician (1883–1950)
- Mark Hellingerb. 1903USAmerican journalist, critic and film producer (1903–1947)
- Bert Hellingerb. 1925DEcatholic priest and psychotherapist (1925–2019)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hellinger mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from a place called Helling or Hellingen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hellinger?
- In German /ˈhɛlɪŋɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hellinger?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 693 people named Hellinger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hellinger. After it come Brazil, Czechia, Israel and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hellinger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hellinger is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 118 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hellinger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 693 people named Hellinger in 2010, about 1 in 480 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/hellingerThe 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, “Hellinger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.