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Heinz

Boys' name

Diminutive of Heinrich

Heinz has been given to 649 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1928, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Heinz, 2021

1 in 678,000

Heinz 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Heinz: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Heinrich

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Heinz means

Heinz is a diminutive of Heinrich.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Heinz is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈhaɪ̯nt͡s/ for Heinz.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Heinz → Heinrich → Heinrich → *Haimarīks. The family’s meaning is “home + king”, recorded in Proto-Germanic with the source elements haimaz and rīks.

Origin, language, and formation

Heinz is used in English and German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Heinrich.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Heinz is pronounced /haɪ̯nt͡s/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 649 boys were recorded with the name Heinz between 1915 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1928; its best national rank was #1,240 in 1928.

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 Heinz?

Heinz had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Heinz 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Heinz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heinzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Heinz was born before 1958 — so the typical Heinz is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
404
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (136).

Is Heinz 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1928 (34)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,240
1928

Spellings of Heinz

Heinz is not the most common spelling — Eino is, with 29.6% against Heinz's 23.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Heinz is used

Across 1910–2025, Heinz was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 262,168 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Heinz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Heinz around the world

Where Heinz 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.

  • France
    1905–1956
    #1,122
    in 1956
  • South Australia
    1948–1967
    #552
    in 1967

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Heinz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,240
1928
Peak year
1928
34 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
649
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Heinz

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

HeitorHeithHeidiHeinrichHeidenHeirHeikoHeitanHeithanHeinHeinerPrinz

Sibling names for Heinz

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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