Heir apparent

Quality:

Heir apparent - person who is first in line of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting, except by death or a change in the rules of succession. Article “Heir apparent” in English Wikipedia has 58.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.1 points.

This article has the best quality in Vietnamese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Heir apparent” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Heir apparent”, its content was written by 416 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 808 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3119 times in English Wikipedia (9305^th place) and cited 8383 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1642 in September 2022
• Global: #1376 in September 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1170 in September 2022
• Global: #2492 in September 2022

There are 27 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Vietnamese (vi) Trữ quân		73.8737
2	English (en) Heir apparent		58.8483
3	Croatian (hr) Prijestolonasljednik		36.2843
4	Polish (pl) Następca tronu		24.9476
5	Simple English (simple) Heir apparent		24.6286
6	Arabic (ar) وريث ظاهر		23.7028
7	Portuguese (pt) Herdeiro aparente		15.0793
8	Korean (ko) 법정추정상속인		15.0666
9	Indonesian (id) Ahli waris tetap		14.4036
10	Japanese (ja) 法定推定相続人		13.3821

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heir apparent		5 929 175
2	Japanese (ja) 法定推定相続人		168 619
3	Portuguese (pt) Herdeiro aparente		159 768
4	Polish (pl) Następca tronu		149 886
5	Swedish (sv) Tronarvinge		114 578
6	German (de) Heir apparent		92 586
7	Vietnamese (vi) Trữ quân		85 145
8	Persian (fa) وارث بلافصل		56 742
9	Arabic (ar) وريث ظاهر		55 689
10	Thai (th) ทายาทผู้มีสิทธิโดยตรง		50 766

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Heir apparent		27 542
2	Persian (fa) وارث بلافصل		1 396
3	Japanese (ja) 法定推定相続人		1 374
4	Simple English (simple) Heir apparent		850
5	Portuguese (pt) Herdeiro aparente		673
6	Vietnamese (vi) Trữ quân		648
7	German (de) Heir apparent		545
8	Arabic (ar) وريث ظاهر		427
9	Russian (ru) Престолонаследник		425
10	Chinese (zh) 法定繼承人		411

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heir apparent		416
2	Japanese (ja) 法定推定相続人		51
3	Swedish (sv) Tronarvinge		38
4	Polish (pl) Następca tronu		37
5	Portuguese (pt) Herdeiro aparente		34
6	Spanish (es) Heredero natural		26
7	Croatian (hr) Prijestolonasljednik		18
8	Vietnamese (vi) Trữ quân		18
9	Simple English (simple) Heir apparent		17
10	Thai (th) ทายาทผู้มีสิทธิโดยตรง		17

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Heir apparent		2
2	Japanese (ja) 法定推定相続人		1
3	Arabic (ar) وريث ظاهر		0
4	Czech (cs) Následník trůnu		0
5	Danish (da) Heir apparent		0
6	German (de) Heir apparent		0
7	Spanish (es) Heredero natural		0
8	Persian (fa) وارث بلافصل		0
9	Finnish (fi) Kruununperillinen		0
10	French (fr) Héritier apparent		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

On 28 January 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2025–26 UEFA Champions League, Nipah virus, Doomsday Clock, UEFA Champions League, Elena Rybakina, Donald Trump, 2026 European Men's Handball Championship, killing of Alex Pretti, Kristi Noem, deaths in 2026.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Ajit Pawar, Border 2, Sharad Pawar, Killing of Alex Pretti, Ilhan Omar, Sunetra Pawar, Todd Monken, Kristi Noem, Wonder Man (miniseries), Gregory Bovino.

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information