Hoenig
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Henich, a form of the Biblical name Hanoch, Henoch (see Enoch)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhoʊnɪɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hoenig is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 26Kas Hönig(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 185Kas Honig
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 8.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hoenig itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 named Hönig, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Honig in US United States, NL Netherlands, BR Brazil and Hönig in DE Germany.
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 the personal name Henich, a form of the Biblical name Hanoch, Henoch (see Enoch).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hoenig 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 | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Hönig | 98 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Hoenig | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,801as Honig | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Honig | 275 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #220 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Hoenig | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 552as Honig | 1 in 31K | 552 | Honig | 54 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 239as Hönig | 1 in 45K | 239 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 67 | 1 in 3.2M | 67 | Honig | 24 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Hoenig is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname; zu mhd. seim, mnd. sēm 'klebrige Flüssigkeit, besonders Honig'; auch Imker/Honigverkäufer. Bearer count: 170.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
variant of Heinig.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Fritz Hoenigb. 1833DEGerman writer (1833-1903)
- Fritz Hoenigb. 1848DEGerman military historian (c. 1848–1902)
- Dov Hoenigb. 1932film editor
- Thomas Hoenigb. 1946USAmerican economist
- Heinz Hoenigb. 1951DEGerman actor
- Michael Hoenigb. 1952DEGerman composer
- Ari Hoenigb. 1973USAmerican musician
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #19,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 840 | #28,408 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67 | #85,160 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #146,885 |
| 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 Hoenig mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Henich, a form of the Biblical name Hanoch, Henoch (see Enoch). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hoenig?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhoʊnɪɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hoenig have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Hönig in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Hoenig?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 67 people named Hoenig, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
- How common is Hoenig compared with other names?
- In Congo - Brazzaville, Hoenig is the 220th most common surname of 1,875 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoenigThe 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, “Hoenig” — the 220th most common surname in Congo - Brazzaville. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.