How common is the surname Heap?

1,903 people in the United States had the surname Heap in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,241 Americans. It ranked 15,402nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heap?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Heap identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Heap getting more or less common?

More common. 1,720 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,903 in 2010, up 11%.

The surname Heap

A surname, carried by 1,903 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heap is more common than 90.5% of them.

Origin

English surname, from the noun heap.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,903 people named Heap in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 162,241 Americans. That is up 11% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,720.

#15,402

rank among US surnames

1,903

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+10.6%

change since 2000 (was #15,598)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,397	Ake	1,904	162,156
#15,402	Frew	1,903	162,241
#15,406	Delfin	1,902	162,327
#15,409	McQueary	1,901	162,412

Who is named Heap

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

91% of people named Heap identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Asian and Pacific Islander 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Heap

Heap has the Soundex code H100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H100.

Questions

Where does the surname Heap come from?: English surname, from the noun heap.
How common is the surname Heap?: 1,903 people in the United States had the surname Heap in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 162,241 Americans. It ranked 15,402nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heap?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Heap identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Heap getting more or less common?: More common. 1,720 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,903 in 2010, up 11%.