Heyden
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heyden is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. variant spelling of Heiden 2.
- BEBelgium1 in 103K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 176K
- NONorway1 in 182K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
- 1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
676 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. variant spelling of Heiden 2. 2. topographic name shortened from von der Heyden ‘of the heath’ (see Heid 1).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heyden 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 | 676 | 1 in 492K | 778 | Heyden | 27 |
| BE Belgium | 114 | 1 in 103K | 114 | Heyden | 7 |
| BR Brazil | 103 | 1 in 2.1M | 103 | Heyden | 23 |
| SE Sweden | 46 | 1 in 222K | 46 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 38 | 1 in 455K | 38 | Heyden | 10 |
| NO Norway | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 29 | 1 in 176K | 29 | Heyden | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 24 | 1 in 245K | 24 | — | — |
676 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Heyden 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, Zu mhd. heiden / mnd. heiden(e) ‚Nichtchrist‘; auch als Kurzform zu Heidenreich. 929 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
- Sebald Heydenb. 1499DEGerman musicologist and theologian
- Christian Heydenb. 1803DEGerman architect (1803–1869)
- Frederick Heidenb. 1821FInot in their usual nameRussian governor (1821-1900)
- Adolf Heydenb. 1838DEGerman architect (1838–1902)
- Wilhelm Heydenb. 1844DEGerman jurist, journalist, historian, politician and art collector (1844-1932)
- Ilse von Heyden-Lindenb. 1883DEGerman painter (1883-1949)
- Luis Heydenb. 1893DEGerman tennis player
- Günter Heydenb. 1921DEGerman politician (1921-2002)
- Ulrich Heydenb. 1954DEGerman journalist
- Phillipp Heydenb. 1988DEGerman basketball player (born 1988)
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 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 778 | #31,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 776 | #28,856 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 676 | #33,695 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 114 | #13,937 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 103 | #61,986 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 46 | #13,551 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 38 | #36,238 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,472 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 29 | #2,939 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 24 | #19,814 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Heyden come from?
- 1. variant spelling of Heiden 2. 2. topographic name shortened from von der Heyden ‘of the heath’ (see Heid 1). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Heyden mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. variant spelling of Heiden 2.
- In which country does Heyden have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 676 people named Heyden, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled heyden.
- Where is Heyden most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Heyden is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 103 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Heyden?
- In the United States, the national register counted 676 people named Heyden in 2010, about 1 in 492 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/heydenThe 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, “Heyden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.