Hempfling
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hempfling is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: from Middle High German henfelinc ‘linnet’, probably applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way or as a metonymic occupational name for a birdcatcher.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- CACanada
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 Middle High German henfelinc ‘linnet’, probably applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way or as a metonymic occupational name for a birdcatcher.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Baptist Hempflingb. 1918DEGerman politician (1918-2017)
- Volker Hempflingb. 1944DEGerman conductor, organist and choir director
- Klaus Ferdinand Hempflingb. 1957DEhorse trainer
- Annette Hempflingb. 1965photographer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 497 | #43,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 495 | #46,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 474 | #42,983 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #81,842 |
| 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
- What does the name Hempfling mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle High German henfelinc ‘linnet’, probably applied as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way or as a metonymic occupational name for a birdcatcher. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hempfling have the most bearers?
- Hempfling 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/hempflingThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Hempfling”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.