How common is the surname Heaney?

4,197 people in the United States had the surname Heaney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,563 Americans. It ranked 7,888th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heaney?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Heaney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Heaney getting more or less common?

More common. 3,928 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,197 in 2010, up 6.8%.

The surname Heaney

An Irish patronymic surname, carried by 4,197 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H500

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heaney is more common than 95.1% of them.

Origin

Irish origin

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hÉighnigh (“descendant of Éighneach”), or an Anglicized form of Ó hÉanna (“descendant of Éanna”), a personal name of unclear origin, possibly containing the element éan (“bird”). Compare Bird, Heagney.

Heaney is a patronymic surname: formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.

One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 4,197 people named Heaney in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 73,563 Americans. That is up 6.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,928.

#7,888

rank among US surnames

4,197

people in 2010

1.4

per 100,000 Americans

+6.8%

change since 2000 (was #7,810)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,880	McGlynn	4,200	73,511
#7,882	Fritsch	4,199	73,528
#7,885	Gallaher	4,198	73,546
#7,888	Llanes	4,197	73,563
#7,891	Strasser	4,196	73,581
#7,894	Gallimore	4,195	73,598
#7,896	Brawley	4,193	73,634

Who is named Heaney

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

95% of people named Heaney identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hainey
Heeney

Surnames that sound like Heaney

Heaney has the Soundex code H500, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H500.

Other Irish surnames

All 880 Irish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Heaney come from?: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hÉighnigh (“descendant of Éighneach”), or an Anglicized form of Ó hÉanna (“descendant of Éanna”), a personal name of unclear origin, possibly containing the element éan (“bird”). Compare Bird, Heagney.
How common is the surname Heaney?: 4,197 people in the United States had the surname Heaney in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 73,563 Americans. It ranked 7,888th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heaney?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Heaney identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Heaney?: Heaney is a patronymic surname, formed from a father’s (or ancestor’s) given name.
Is the surname Heaney getting more or less common?: More common. 3,928 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,197 in 2010, up 6.8%.
What are other spellings of Heaney?: Hainey and Heeney.