Heinrich

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled นิแห in TH Thailand.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• English given name20K records spelled Heinrich119 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, Brazil

  Languages: English, French, German

  Also written Henry, Henri, Henley, Ჰენრი, Henr

• Croatian given name1.7K records spelled Heinrich13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Serbia

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

  Also written Hajnrih, Хайнрих, Хајнрих, Хаинрих

78 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●

Heinrich 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.

• In German, from the Germanic given name Heinrich, from *heim- 'home, estate' + *rīc- 'power, ruler'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, from Germanic *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'powerful, ruler'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, German surname type showing e~ei vowel variation; bearer count 18,765.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

• In German, Names from Heinrich; plate shows ei/e and short-vowel variants.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

• from personal name Heinrich, composed of the Germanic elements haim, heim ‘home’ -I- ric ‘power’. In the Middle Ages this was the most popular of personal names in Germany. See also Henry.

  as a name·Dictionary 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 48 years between 1956–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Henry I the Fowlerb. 876DEnot in their usual nameKing of East Francia (919–936); Duke of Saxony (912–936)
• Henry IIIb. 1016DEnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Emperor
• Henry VIb. 1165DEnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197
• Johann Pestalozzib. 1746CHnot in their usual nameSwiss pedagogue and educational reformer (1746-1827)
• Robert Kochb. 1843DEnot in their usual nameGerman physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
• Heinrich Hertzb. 1857DEGerman physicist (1857–1894)
• Otto Dixb. 1891DEnot in their usual nameGerman painter and printmaker (1891–1969)
• Heinrich Himmlerb. 1900DEGerman Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
• Heinrich Böllb. 1917DEGerman writer (1917–1985)
• Helmut Schmidtb. 1918DEnot in their usual nameChancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 479 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Heinrich?

We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Heinrich (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.

In which country does Heinrich have the most bearers?

Heinrich is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled heinrich.

How common is Heinrich compared with other names?

In Germany, Heinrich is the 91st most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.

Is Heinrich a male or female name?

Heinrich is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Heinrich mean?

Recorded meaning: From Germanic Heinrich (haim 'home' + rīc 'power'); plate maps vowel variation in surname forms derived from Heinrich.