Heinrich

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Heinrich is a German male first name and a family name . Feminine forms of the first name are Henrike and Henriette .

The most famous namesake is Heinrich the Holy († 1024), as the German Emperor Heinrich II.

Sweet Heinrich is a form of sugar dispenser popular in cafés , named after Heinrich Kurz , who brought the product onto the market in 1954.

origin

Heinrich comes from Old High German and is probably the successor to the Old High German name Heimrich, as Heinrich appears in texts and documents at the time when Heimrich disappears. The name is composed of heim for " home , house " or hagan for " court " (from which Hag : "enclosed place") and rîhhi for "mighty, prince".

distribution

In the second half of the Middle Ages the name Heinrich was very common, a large number of men were called either Heinrich or Konrad at the time . In the last few years of the 19th century until the 1910s, Heinrich was one of the ten most popular boy names in Germany. Its popularity then gradually declined, from the mid-1940s it fell sharply. The name has hardly been used since the 1980s. The English or French variant Henry / Henri is very popular again.

variants

German

Other languages

Name days

Catholic

Evangelical

Well-known namesake

For rulers see under rulers named Heinrich

family name

The first name Heinrich is common as a family name, see Heinrich (family name) , in addition in the Low German and foreign language modifications Hinnerk , Henrik , Hendrik , Hinrich , Enrico , Henri , Henry , Henk u. a. There are also the patronymic derivatives Heinrichs , Heinrichsen , Heindrichs , Hinrichs , Hendrichs , Hendriks , Hendricks , Hendrickx , Hendrix , Hendrikson , Hendriksen , Hanks and others. a., Latinized Henrici .

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics on "Popular first names"
  2. Józef Bubak: Wykaz Imion używanych w Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej . In: Język Polski . 1983, p. 78 (Polish, malopolska.pl [accessed February 22, 2013]).
  3. Calendar of saints