# Heiner (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/heiner/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | 11,151 |

## People named Heiner

- Heiner Lauterbach, German actor and dub actor (geb. 1953)
- Heiner Koch, German archbishop, theologian and writer
- Heiner Carow, German film director (1929–1997)
- Heiner Brand, German handball player and coach
- Heiner Mora, Costa Rican footballer
- Heiner Goebbels, German composer and theatre director
- Heiner Dopp, field hockey player
- Heiner Flassbeck, German economist
- Heiner Parra, cyclist
- Heiner Backhaus, German football player
- Heiner Baltes, German footballer (born 1949)
- Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (1936–2004)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.