# Heinrich (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/heinrich/  
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 |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 526 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 526 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Heinrich.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | 6,370 |
| 2012 | 17 | 5,335 |
| 2013 | 17 | 5,254 |
| 2014 | 18 | 5,130 |
| 2015 | 21 | 4,606 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,379 |
| 2017 | 22 | 4,519 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,307 |
| 2019 | 14 | 6,213 |
| 2020 | 25 | 4,061 |
| 2021 | 13 | 6,457 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,270 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,317 |
| 2024 | 26 | 4,118 |
| 2025 | 21 | 4,768 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2008 | 4 | 3,687 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |

## People named Heinrich

- Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-19
- Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
- Johann Heinrich Lambert, German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)
- Heinrich Otto Wieland, German Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1877-1957)
- Heinrich Brüning, German chancellor (1885-1970)
- Heinrich Schütz, German composer and organist (1585–1672)
- Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and author (1912–2006)
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, German astronomer (1822–1875)
- Heinrich Barth, German explorer (1821-1865)
- Heinrich Biber, Bohemian-Austrian composer and violinist (1644–1704)
- Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (1802–1870)
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, German jurist, writer and gay rights activist (1825–1895)

## 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.