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    The surname Heady

    A surname, carried by 2,901 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H300

    Heady: #10,964 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Heady #10,964, 2,901 people Heady: #10,964 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Heady #10,964, 2,901 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heady is more common than 93.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,901 people named Heady in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 106,427 Americans. That is up 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,734.

    #10,964
    rank among US surnames
    2,901
    people in 2010
    1.0
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.1%
    change since 2000 (was #10,719)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #10,956Bashaw2,904106,317
    #10,959Sorg2,903106,354
    #10,962Cripps2,902106,391
    #10,964Auman2,901106,427
    #10,968Diener2,900106,464

    Who is named Heady

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

    90% of people named Heady identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 90%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 4.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Heady

    Heady has the Soundex code H300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H300.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Heady?
    2,901 people in the United States had the surname Heady in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 106,427 Americans. It ranked 10,964th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Heady?
    In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Heady identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Heady getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,734 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,901 in 2010, up 6.1%.