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The surname Heatherly

An English surname, carried by 2,987 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H364

Heatherly: #10,701 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Heatherly #10,701, 2,987 people Heatherly: #10,701 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Heatherly #10,701, 2,987 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heatherly is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English hǣþer (“heather”) + lēah (“meadow”).

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,987 people named Heatherly in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 103,363 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,994.

#10,701
rank among US surnames
2,987
people in 2010
1.0
per 100,000 Americans
-0.2%
change since 2000 (was #9,939)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#10,692Spiers2,989103,294
#10,697Zellers2,988103,328
#10,701Lamkin2,987103,363
#10,704Rugg2,986103,398
#10,706Wardlow2,985103,432
#10,708Ricard2,984103,467

Who is named Heatherly

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

95% of people named Heatherly identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 95%
  • Two or more races 1.9%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Other English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Heatherly come from?
From Old English hǣþer (“heather”) + lēah (“meadow”).
How common is the surname Heatherly?
2,987 people in the United States had the surname Heatherly in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 103,363 Americans. It ranked 10,701st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heatherly?
In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Heatherly identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
Is the surname Heatherly getting more or less common?
Less common. 2,994 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,987 in 2010, down 0.2%.