Haenel surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Haenel surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 370 people carried this name — #55,505 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (370).

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Haenel surname

A surname from German.

Borrowed from German Haenel.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Haenel» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 271 people named Haenel.

2 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 2
Bas-Rhin 196
Moselle 32
Paris 12
Haut-Rhin 9
Meurthe-et-Moselle 4
Seine-et-Marne 3
Lot-et-Garonne 3
Meuse 3

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Poland’s population register

46 people named Haenel have a registered home in Poland.

Of the 59 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in 3 of Poland’s 16 voivodeships, most of all in Greater Poland.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Greater Poland 34
Kuyavian-Pomeranian 7
Lubusz 5

PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.

Who carried it

People named Haenel,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Eduard Haenel 1819–1878 · engineer
  • Oswald Haenel 1842–1911 · architect
  • Walter Haenel 1862–1928 · industrialist
  • Erich Haenel 1875–1940 · university teacher
  • Wilhelm Haenel 1891–1967 · engineer
  • Eike Haenel 1938–2018 · ethnologist

Wikidata (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.

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