Hinrichs

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Patronymic form of Heinrich with vowel i in the stem; 5560 bearers

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈhɪnɹɪks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hinrichs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 69K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 92K
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 21K

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.

United States (measured from records)

4,825 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
300 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HinrichsLatin(measured from records)
ฮนรชสThai(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)

Patronymic form of Heinrich with vowel i in the stem; 5560 bearers.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hinrichs 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.

Where Hinrichs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,8251 in 69K4.8KHinrichs300
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈4,800 est.≈1 in 21K—Hinrichs1
GB United Kingdom—≈720 est.≈1 in 92K—Hinrichs38
EG Egypt—≈340 est.≈1 in 309K—Hinrichs3
CA Canada—≈320 est.≈1 in 120K—Hinrichs31
CU Cuba—≈180 est.≈1 in 62K—Hinrichs2
SG Singapore—≈130 est.≈1 in 46K—Hinrichs1
DK Denmark—1121 in 52K112Hinrichs29
AG Antigua & Barbuda#274———Hinrichs1

4,825 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; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hinrichs is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Хинрикс

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hinrichs 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.

  • patronymic from the personal name Hinrich (see Heinrich).

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In German, Patronym zu Hinrich/Heinrich; Vokalvarianz i/e und Diphthong-/Monophthongschwankung im Stammvokal, mit 5,560 Belegen.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Genitiv-/Patronymform auf -s zu Hinrich; geballt in Ostfriesland. 12 Types/12658 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, Patronymische Bildung zu Hinrich/Henrich mit -s; 12658 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, patronymisch zu Heinrich

    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)

1700180019002000Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs, b. 1794Gustav Hinrichs, b. 1850Carl Hinrichs, b. 1900Carl Hinrichs, b. 1907Wolfgang Hinrichs, b. 1922Ursula Hinrichs, b. 1935Fabian Hinrichs, b. 1974Lars Hinrichs, b. 1976Carla Hinrichs, b. 1997Teo Hinrichs, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Hinrichs,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Hinrichs
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.8K#6,952
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.8K#6,547
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.7K#6,873
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—112#4,888
US United Stateswru 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)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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 Hinrichs mean, and where does it come from?
Patronymic form of Heinrich with vowel i in the stem; 5560 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
How do you pronounce Hinrichs?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhɪnɹɪks/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Hinrichs have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Hinrichs, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hinrichs.
How common is the name Hinrichs?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,825 people named Hinrichs in 2010, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
How common is Hinrichs compared with other names?
In Antigua & Barbuda, Hinrichs is the 274th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hinrichs” — the 274th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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