Hein

Hein is the 2,854th most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,306 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,300.

By the numbers

People: 12,306
Rank: 2,854th
How common: 1 in 24,300
Per 100,000: 4.1

Where the name comes from

From German, Dutch, Low German, Danish, and Jewish surname, all from the first element of the Germanic name Heinrich.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hein described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hein

Piet Hein (1905–1996)20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet
Karl Jakob Hein (born 2002)Estonian association football player
Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577–1629)Dutch admiral
Karl Hein (1908–1982)German hammer thrower
Harald Hein (1950–2008)German fencer
Christoph Hein (born 1944)German writer and translator
John Hein (1886–1963)Olympic wrestler
Gauthier Hein (born 1996)French association football player

People named Hein with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hein

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.