Given name & surname · also German
Hein
“the ruler of the house”·“God is gracious”
In German use, Hein is a diminutive of Heinrich. In German use, Heinrich carries the interpretation “the ruler of the house.” Hein is a variant of Heinz. In German use, Heinz carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Original GermanHeinrich
Meaning & origin
What it means
In German use, Hein is a diminutive of Heinrich. In German use, Heinrich carries the interpretation “the ruler of the house.” Hein is a variant of Heinz. In German use, Heinz carries the interpretation “God is gracious.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Hein comes from German, and ultimately from Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In German usage, Hein is a diminutive of Heinrich.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hein through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 315 as a first name in 2020; 12,306 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hein’s family of names
In German usage, Hein is a diminutive of Heinrich. Hein has a related form in Heinz. In German usage, Hein as a surname has a related form in HAIN.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 38
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Henryequivalent
- Ericequivalent
- Erikequivalent
- Enriqueequivalent
- Harryequivalent
- Haroldequivalent
- Henrikequivalent
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- Hendrikequivalent
- Henriqueequivalent
- Enricoequivalent
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- Haraldequivalent
- Erichequivalent
- Eirikequivalent
- Erykequivalent
- Enricequivalent
- Hendricequivalent
- Henrichequivalent
- Henkequivalent
- Hennekeequivalent
- Hinrichequivalent
- Hynekequivalent
- Hinnerkequivalent
- Jindřichequivalent
- Henricusequivalent
- Hinrikequivalent
- Henrikasequivalent
- Èricequivalent
- Henrihequivalent
- Hendricusequivalent
- Éricequivalent
- Henkeequivalent
- Henkleequivalent
- Andrinequivalent
- Eiríkurequivalent
- Ericusequivalent
- Heinshas masculine form
People named Hein
- Heintje SimonsDutch singer and actorborn 1955
- Jan Hein DonnerDutch chess grandmaster (1927-1988)
- Hein Vanhaezebrouckfootball coachborn 1964
- Hein Otterspeerspeed skater from the Netherlandsborn 1988
- Hein VergeerDutch speed skaterborn 1961
- Hein ter PoortenDutch military officer (1887–1968)
- Hein EerselSurinamese linguist (1922–2022)
- Hein VosDutch politician (1903-1972)
- Hein Verbruggeninternational Olympic Committee member (1941–2017)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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