Heinz
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heinz is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is the 36th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the German male personal name Heinrich ‘Henry’.
- DEGermany1 in 253◐
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4K
- ATAustria1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.9K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 246 ●
- 1 in 11K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
525K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
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●
from a pet form of the German male personal name Heinrich ‘Henry’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #36 | 478,892 | 486K rec. | — | — | Heinz | 228 |
| AT Austria | #271 | 9,704 | 6K rec. | — | 316 | Heinz | 133 |
| CH Switzerland | #114 | 5,409 | 3.3K rec. | — | 422 | Heinz | 127 |
| US United States | — | 1,918 | 20K rec. | 1 in 173K | 8.3K | Heinz | 246 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,596 | 472 rec. | — | 187 | Heinz | 49 |
| SE Sweden | — | 915△ | 111 rec. | 1 in 11K | 915 | — | 32 |
| BE Belgium | — | 752 | 746 rec. | — | 35 | Heinz | 44 |
| PL Poland | — | 745 | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 51K | 745 | Heinz | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | 711 | 860 rec. | — | — | Heinz | 59 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 610 | 613 rec. | — | — | Heinz | 68 |
| BR Brazil | — | 581△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 364K | 809 | — | 2 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 420 | 442 rec. | — | — | Heinz | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German513K87%
- English26K4%
- Portuguese14K2%
- Spanish9.3K2%
- French3.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 512,584 | 87% |
| English | 25,689 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 14,486 | 2% |
| Spanish | 9,316 | 2% |
| French | 3,182 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Heinz 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 Heinrich, from *haim- 'home' + *rīk- 'ruler, powerful'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Names from Heinrich; plate shows ei/e and z/s variants.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
from a pet form of the personal name Heinrich.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, a popular diminutive of the male given name Heinrich
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Kurzform zu Heinrich; die Karte zeigt die Konsonantenvariation -nz / -tz in Heinz vs. Heitz. Bearer count in der Tabelle: Heinz 13 865, Heitz 576.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1915 | 6 |
| 1916 | 6 |
| 1920 | 6 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1923 | 8 |
| 1924 | 9 |
| 1925 | 10 |
| 1926 | 13 |
| 1927 | 19 |
| 1928 | 34 |
| 1929 | 22 |
| 1930 | 21 |
| 1931 | 8 |
| 1932 | 16 |
| 1933 | 10 |
| 1934 | 6 |
| 1935 | 5 |
| 1937 | 11 |
| 1938 | 6 |
| 1939 | 10 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1942 | 6 |
| 1950 | 8 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1954 | 15 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 10 |
| 1957 | 12 |
| 1958 | 16 |
| 1959 | 11 |
| 1960 | 16 |
| 1961 | 19 |
| 1962 | 16 |
| 1963 | 15 |
| 1964 | 15 |
| 1965 | 15 |
| 1966 | 13 |
| 1967 | 15 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 7 |
| 1970 | 16 |
| 1971 | 13 |
| 1972 | 11 |
| 1973 | 8 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1993 | 5 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2001 | 7 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 67 years between 1915–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Heinz Guderianb. 1888DEGerman general
- Heinz Hopfb. 1894CHGerman mathematician (1894–1971)
- Heinz Hoffmannb. 1910DEGerman politician (SED) (1910-1985)
- Heinz Lingeb. 1913DESS officer; valet for German dictator Adolf Hitler (1913–1980)
- Heinz Keßlerb. 1920DEGerman military officer, Armeegeneral in the former National People's Army of East Germany (1920-2017)
- Heinz-Wolfgang Schnauferb. 1922DEGerman officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1922–1950)
- Henry Kissingerb. 1923USnot in their usual nameAmerican diplomat and geopolitical advisor, served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 (1923–2023)
- Heinz Fischerb. 1938ATAustrian politician (SPÖ), 8th president of Austria (born 1938)
- Michael Skibbeb. 1965DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player and manager
- Karl Urbanb. 1972NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand actor
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 71 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.3K | #4,276 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.3K | #3,931 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8K | #4,294 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,782 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 915 | #1,802 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 809 | #10,525 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 745 | #298 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 581 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 578 | #12,073 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 422 | #3,117 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 420 | #744 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 371 | #2,420 |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 422 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Heinz?
- We estimate roughly 4.9 thousand people bear Heinz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Heinz have the most bearers?
- Heinz is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled heinz.
- How common is Heinz compared with other names?
- In Germany, Heinz is the 36th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- Is Heinz a male or female name?
- Heinz 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 Heinz mean?
- Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the German male personal name Heinrich ‘Henry’
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About this data
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.
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, “Heinz” — the 36th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.