Henkel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Heinrich
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɛŋkəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Henkel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 65K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 19K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 pet form of the personal name Heinrich.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Henkel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Henkel | 3 |
| DE Germany | #348 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | listed | Henkel | 180 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #891 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Henkel | 1 |
| US United States | — | 5,135 | 1 in 65K | 5.2K | Henkel | 299 |
| BR Brazil | — | 963 | 1 in 220K | 963 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 139 | 1 in 60K | 139 | Henkel | 26 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Henkel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, handle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Meist Erweiterung von Henk(e) mit -l-Suffix zu Heinrich; evtl. althochd. -inclīn fortgesetzt. 7636 Bearer. Die Karte zeigt e/Vokal- und c/k-Varianten.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Familienname auf -el; l-Suffix, häufig patronymisch oder aus Kurzform. Keine Bearer-Zahl im OCR.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Familienname aus Kurzform zu Heinrich; zeigt den Vokalwandel e in der Karte. 7636 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, zu Heinrich; Koseform
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Henner Henkelb. 1915PLGerman tennis player (1915-1943)
- Hans-Olaf Henkelb. 1940DEGerman manager and politician
- Gerhard Henkelb. 1943DEGerman geographer
- Kim Henkelb. 1946USAmerican film director, producer and screenwriter
- Frank Henkelb. 1963DEGerman politician
- Heike Henkelb. 1964DEGerman high jumper
- Rainer Henkelb. 1964DEGerman swimmer
- Alexandra Henkelb. 1971DEGerman actress, born 1970
- Manuela Henkelb. 1974DEcross-country skier
- Andrea Henkelb. 1977DEGerman biathlete
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.2K | #6,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.1K | #6,595 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,524 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 963 | #9,622 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 139 | #8,453 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
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 Henkel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Heinrich. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Henkel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛŋkəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Henkel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Henkel in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henkel.
- How common is the name Henkel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,135 people named Henkel in 2010, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.
- How common is Henkel compared with other names?
- In Germany, Henkel is the 348th most common surname of 765,306 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/henkelThe 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, “Henkel” — the 348th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.