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    The surname Heape

    A surname, carried by 677 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H100

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heape is more common than 79.3% of them.

    Origin

    Perhaps from Middle English hepe (“rosehip”), heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 677 people named Heape in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 456,050 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 670.

    #33,645
    rank among US surnames
    677
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #32,380)

    Who is named Heape

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

    93% of people named Heape identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 2.8%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Heape

    Heape 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 Heape come from?
    Perhaps from Middle English hepe (“rosehip”), heppe, hipe, from Old English hēope, from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ.
    How common is the surname Heape?
    677 people in the United States had the surname Heape in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 456,050 Americans. It ranked 33,645th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Heape?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Heape identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
    Is the surname Heape getting more or less common?
    More common. 670 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 677 in 2010, up 1.0%.