Heppner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: one who makes heppen/sickles; also from Höppner
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɛpnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Heppner is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- CACanada
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
one who makes heppen/sickles; also from Höppner
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Heppner is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
occupational name for a vineyard worker or for a maker of implements for cutting grapes from the vine (see Hepper).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
occupational name for a dealer in hops, variant of Hoeppner.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ernst Heppnerb. 1891PLGerman doctor
- Reinhart Heppnerb. 1931DEGerman geologist (1931–2020)
- Ben Heppnerb. 1956CACanadian opera singer and broadcaster
- Uwe Heppnerb. 1960DEEast German rower
- Frank Heppnerb. 1960DEGerman cook and cookbook author
- Jens Heppnerb. 1964DEroad bicycle racer
- Peter Heppnerb. 1967DEGerman songwriter, recording artist
- Nancy Heppnerb. 1971CACanadian politician
- Kris Heppnerb. 1977USAmerican football player
- Simon HeppnerGBFounder & Director, The Sustainable Restaurant Association
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,428 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,509 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #16,984 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 186 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 86 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 86 | #33,314 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 83 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 83 | #34,714 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 35 | #37,385 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 35 | #12,428 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 21 | #35,283 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Heppner mean, and where does it come from?
- one who makes heppen/sickles; also from Höppner Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Heppner?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛpnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Heppner have the most bearers?
- Heppner is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heppnerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heppner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.