How common is the surname Headrick?

5,459 people in the United States had the surname Headrick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,557 Americans. It ranked 6,256th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Headrick getting more or less common?

More common. 5,180 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,459 in 2010, up 5.4%.

The surname Headrick

An English place surname, carried by 5,459 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H362

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Headrick is more common than 96.1% of them.

Origin

English origin

Scottish habitational or topographic surname, from Old English headrig (“ridge at the end of a field”).

Headrick 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 5,459 people named Headrick in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 56,557 Americans. That is up 5.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,180.

#6,256

rank among US surnames

5,459

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+5.4%

change since 2000 (was #6,105)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,250	Furtado	5,464	56,505
#6,252	Schauer	5,463	56,516
#6,253	Saad	5,461	56,536
#6,256	Headrick	5,459	56,557
#6,257	Kwok	5,458	56,568

Who is named Headrick

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

95% of people named Headrick identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as two or more races and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Two or more races 1.8%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Hettrick

Surnames that sound like Headrick

Headrick has the Soundex code H362, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H362.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Headrick come from?: Scottish habitational or topographic surname, from Old English headrig (“ridge at the end of a field”).
How common is the surname Headrick?: 5,459 people in the United States had the surname Headrick in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 56,557 Americans. It ranked 6,256th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Headrick?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Headrick identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as two or more races.
What type of surname is Headrick?: Headrick is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Headrick getting more or less common?: More common. 5,180 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,459 in 2010, up 5.4%.
What are other spellings of Headrick?: Hettrick.