Henzel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of either Heinrich (in part an altered spelling of an eastern German pet form, Heintschel) or Johannes (see John) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ẽzɛl/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Henzel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 67K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 76K
- SISlovenia1 in 162K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Henzel
- Portuguese:/ẽzɛl/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of either Heinrich (in part an altered spelling of an eastern German pet form, Heintschel) or Johannes (see John).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Henzel is found
(measured from records)Henzel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 76K | listed | Henzel | 69 |
| BR Brazil | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 296K | 57 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 575 | 1 in 67K | 299 | Henzel | 1 |
| US United States | 498 | 1 in 668K | 498 | Henzel | 173 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 751K | — | Henzel | 28 |
| HU Hungary | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Henzel | 11 |
| SI Slovenia | 13 | 1 in 162K | 13 | — | 1 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Henzel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Vgl. Vokalvarianz e/ei; der Typ kommt vor allem im Westmitteldeutschen vor und steht vermutlich in Konkurrenz zu Patronymen aus Johannes. Bearer count: 463.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Übername; morphol. Typ mit z-Suffix plus -l/-k, Varianten mit z/tz. Wohl zu Hensel „Narrengestalt der Fastnachtsspiele“. 408 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, zu Heinz/Heinrich; Lautvariante
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)- Richard Henzelb. 1949USAmerican born actor
- Dominik Henzelb. 1964SESwedish actor
- Rafael Henzelb. 1973BRBrazilian radio broadcaster (1973–2019)
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Henzel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of either Heinrich (in part an altered spelling of an eastern German pet form, Heintschel) or Johannes (see John). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Henzel?
- In Portuguese /ẽzɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Henzel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Henzel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled henzel. After it come Brazil, Poland, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Henzel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Henzel is densest in Poland — about 1 in 67 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Henzel?
- In Poland, the national register counted 575 people named Henzel in 2026, about 1 in 67 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/henzelThe 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, “Henzel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.