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    The surname Haight

    An English place surname, carried by 6,929 people in the United States.

    Pronounced /heɪt/ 1 syllable Soundex H230

    Haight: #5,062 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Haight #5,062, 6,929 people Haight: #5,062 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Haight #5,062, 6,929 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Haight is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English hēahþu (“height”), a topographic surname for someone who lived at the top of a hill. Compare Hight.

    Haight 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 6,929 people named Haight in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,558 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,739.

    #5,062
    rank among US surnames
    6,929
    people in 2010
    2.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2.8%
    change since 2000 (was #4,786)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,058Lock6,93644,513
    #5,059Siebert6,93244,539
    #5,060Buenrostro6,93144,546
    #5,062Haight6,92944,558
    #5,064Salyer6,92644,578

    Who is named Haight

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

    93% of people named Haight identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
    • Two or more races 1.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Haight

    Haight has the Soundex code H230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H230.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Haight come from?
    From Old English hēahþu (“height”), a topographic surname for someone who lived at the top of a hill. Compare Hight.
    How common is the surname Haight?
    6,929 people in the United States had the surname Haight in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,558 Americans. It ranked 5,062nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Haight?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Haight identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    How do you pronounce Haight?
    Haight is /heɪt/, one syllable.
    What type of surname is Haight?
    Haight is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Haight getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,739 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,929 in 2010, up 2.8%.