Heeb

surname · German · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Heeb is a surname, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. In Liechtenstein it is the 32nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Habo, a short form of several Germanic names formed with hadu ‘strife’ as the first element, see Haab.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 5.3K◐
  • DEGermany1 in 111K
  • USUnited States1 in 669K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.2K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
133 ●

6.4K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.3K ◐

Switzerland

Meaning & origin●

from Habo, a short form of several Germanic names formed with hadu ‘strife’ as the first element, see Haab.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Heeb is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland#6091,588△281 rec.1 in 5.3K1.6KHeeb40
DE Germany—1,000906 rec.——Heeb62
US United States—4974K rec.1 in 669K497Heeb133
TH Thailand—440440 rec.——Heeb1
LI Liechtenstein#323228 rec.—144Heeb14
AU Australia—222213 rec.——Heeb18
GB United Kingdom—135129 rec.——Heeb10
CA Canada—8596 rec.——Heeb9
AR Argentina—6642 rec.——Heeb15
IL Israel—4036 rec.——Heeb5
FI Finland—36△6 rec.1 in 155K36—1
NZ New Zealand—2525 rec.——Heeb1

Roughly 1.6K people in Switzerland bear this name (about 1 in 5.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German5.3K46%
  • English4.7K41%
  • Arabic2802%
  • Spanish2452%
  • French1171%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German5,33346%
English4,70641%
Arabic2802%
Spanish2452%
French1171%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Heeb is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname348 records spelled Heeb7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Egypt, Switzerland

    Also written Hèëb, Hëęb, Héëb, Hééb, Hèèb

  • French surname137 records spelled Heeb2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States, Thailand

    Also written Hëęb

31 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●

Heeb 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 English, A Jew.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

1850190019502000Friedrich Heeb, b. 1884Fritz Heeb, b. 1911Joseph Heeb, b. 1930Adolf Heeb, b. 1940Sandro Guzzi-Heeb, b. 1960Christian Heeb, b. 1962Barbara Heeb, b. 1969Martin Heeb, b. 1969Birgit Heeb-Batliner, b. 1972Armando Heeb, b. 1990

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●

Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Heeb
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.6K#650
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010497#43,438
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000486#42,056
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020462#49,237
LI LiechtensteinStatistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames)2020144—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—36#34,971
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200821#46,669
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—7#48,172
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6#54,687
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#262,039
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—

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 2026-09-12 data build · 15 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Heeb?
We estimate roughly 2.2 thousand people bear Heeb (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Heeb have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.6 thousand people bear Heeb in Switzerland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled heeb.
How common is Heeb compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Heeb is the 609th most common surname of 254,432 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Heeb mean?
Recorded meaning: from Habo, a short form of several Germanic names formed with hadu ‘strife’ as the first element, see Haab.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heeb” — the 609th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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