Heinrich

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Gender: Male Pronunciation: HINE-rish Meaning of Heinrich: "home of the king" Origin of Heinrich: German

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The name Heinrich is a boy's name of German, Dutch origin meaning "home of the king". Heinrich and is often added to lists like Names That Mean Ruler or Royal and discussed in our forums with posts like "A brother or sister for little Jack or Olivia".

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Traditional German-Names">German names of this ilk have had a difficult time emigrating into the American name pool, mostly because anti-German sentiment during the two world wars of the 20th century drove German-Names">German names out of fashion. One of Heinrich's nicknames, Harro, might do better.

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Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and author
Heinrich Heine, German writer
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS commander
Heinrich Otto Wieland, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Heinrich Böll, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Heinrich Rohrer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Heinrich Scholz, German logician and philosopher
Heinrich Gottlob "Heiner" Rau, East German politician
(Ernst) Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué, Prussian general
Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser, German physicist
Heinrich Franz Bernhard Müller, German civil engineer