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Heinrich

#4,767 in 2025Boys' name

Home + king, through *Haimarīks

Heinrich has been given to 526 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #4,767 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Heinrich, 2025

1 in 158,000

Heinrich over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heinrich: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through *Haimarīks

German and Old High German

What Heinrich means

Heinrich belongs to the name family reached through Heinrich → Heinrich → *Haimarīks. Its meaning is “home + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Heinrich is used in English and German. Its origins include German and Old High German.

Heinrich comes through German Heinrich.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Henry, Henri, Hendrik, Henrik, Heinrich and *Haimarīks.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Heinrich is pronounced [ˈhaɪnʁɪç].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 526 boys were recorded with the name Heinrich between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,940 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,057 in 2020 to #4,767 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,604 in 2015 to #4,767 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Heinrich?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,767
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heinrich sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heinrich. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heinrichs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heinrich was born before 2011 — so the typical Heinrich is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
526
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (164).

Is Heinrich rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−652
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−710
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−163
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.8%
Peak was 2024 (26)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,940
1969

Where Heinrich is used

Across 1910–2025, Heinrich was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 983,432 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Heinrich has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Heinrich around the world

Where Heinrich ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2011
    #4,647
    in 2011
  • France
    1928–2011
    #4,696
    in 2011
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1947–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Heinrich by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,767
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 710
Best rank ever
#2,940
1969
Peak year
2024
26 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
526
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Heinrich

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Heinrich

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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