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    The surname Hearon

    A surname, carried by 1,894 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H650

    Hearon: #15,464 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hearon #15,464, 1,894 people Hearon: #15,464 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hearon #15,464, 1,894 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hearon is more common than 90.5% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,894 people named Hearon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,012 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,666.

    #15,464
    rank among US surnames
    1,894
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +13.7%
    change since 2000 (was #16,001)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,456Cadwallader1,895162,926
    #15,464Belz1,894163,012
    #15,471Castner1,893163,099

    Who is named Hearon

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

    69% of people named Hearon identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.0% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hearon

    Hearon has the Soundex code H650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H650.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hearon?
    1,894 people in the United States had the surname Hearon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,012 Americans. It ranked 15,464th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hearon?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Hearon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hearon getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,666 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,894 in 2010, up 14%.