How common is the surname Heacock?

2,194 people in the United States had the surname Heacock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,723 Americans. It ranked 13,786th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heacock?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Heacock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Heacock getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,272 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,194 in 2010, down 3.4%.

The surname Heacock

A surname, carried by 2,194 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H220

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heacock is more common than 91.5% of them.

Origin

Variant spelling of Haycock.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,194 people named Heacock in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 140,723 Americans. That is down 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,272.

#13,786

rank among US surnames

2,194

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

-3.4%

change since 2000 (was #12,507)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,781	Pettengill	2,195	140,659
#13,786	Schuessler	2,194	140,723
#13,790	Cuddy	2,193	140,787
#13,795	Wickstrom	2,192	140,851

Who is named Heacock

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

92% of people named Heacock identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Heacox

Surnames that sound like Heacock

Haycock

Heacock has the Soundex code H220, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H220.

Questions

Where does the surname Heacock come from?: Variant spelling of Haycock.
How common is the surname Heacock?: 2,194 people in the United States had the surname Heacock in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 140,723 Americans. It ranked 13,786th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heacock?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Heacock identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Heacock getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,272 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,194 in 2010, down 3.4%.
What are other spellings of Heacock?: Heacox.