How common is the surname Haigh?

2,727 people in the United States had the surname Haigh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 113,218 Americans. It ranked 11,534th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Haigh?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Haigh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Haigh?

Nancy Haigh, American set designer, followed by Robert Haigh.

Where is the surname Haigh most common?

Wikidata records people named Haigh in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Is the surname Haigh getting more or less common?

More common. 2,701 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,727 in 2010, up 1.0%.

The surname Haigh

An English place surname, carried by 2,727 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Haigh is more common than 92.9% of them.

Origin

English origin

English surname, derived from the place in Yorkshire. It derives from Old English haga (“enclosure”).

Haigh is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,727 people named Haigh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 113,218 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,701.

#11,534

rank among US surnames

2,727

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1%

change since 2000 (was #10,831)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,529	Easterday	2,728	113,177
#11,534	Haigh	2,727	113,218
#11,537	Ritenour	2,726	113,260
#11,540	Pardee	2,725	113,301
#11,543	Woodrow	2,723	113,384

Who is named Haigh

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Haigh identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Haighs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Nancy Haigh
American set designer, born 1946
Robert Haigh
Australian field hockey player, born 1945
Kenneth Haigh
British actor (1931-2018)

Notable Haighs come mostly from the United States (1), Australia (1) and the United Kingdom (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Haigh

Haigh has the Soundex code H200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H200.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Haigh come from?: English surname, derived from the place in Yorkshire. It derives from Old English haga (“enclosure”).
How common is the surname Haigh?: 2,727 people in the United States had the surname Haigh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 113,218 Americans. It ranked 11,534th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Haigh?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Haigh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Haigh?: Nancy Haigh, American set designer, followed by Robert Haigh.
Where is the surname Haigh most common?: Wikidata records people named Haigh in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
What type of surname is Haigh?: Haigh is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Haigh getting more or less common?: More common. 2,701 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,727 in 2010, up 1.0%.