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    The surname Heaton

    An English place surname, carried by 13,834 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H350

    Heaton: #2,606 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Heaton #2,606, 13,834 people Heaton: #2,606 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Heaton #2,606, 13,834 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heaton is more common than 98.4% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English hēah (“high”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

    Heaton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    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 13,834 people named Heaton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,318 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,700.

    #2,606
    rank among US surnames
    13,834
    people in 2010
    4.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1%
    change since 2000 (was #2,424)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,597Coy13,87522,252
    #2,598Dykes13,87422,254
    #2,599Branham13,87222,257
    #2,600Grier13,86822,263
    #2,601Pfeiffer13,85122,290
    #2,602Whipple13,85022,292
    #2,604Strauss13,84022,308

    Who is named Heaton

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

    94% of people named Heaton identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Heatons

    5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Patricia Heaton
      American actress (born 1958)
    • Charlie Heaton
      British actor, born 1994
    • Jennison Heaton
      American Skeleton racer (1904–1971)
    • John Heaton
      American Skeleton racer (1908-1976)
    • Mary Heaton Vorse
      American journalist (1874–1966)

    Notable Heatons come mostly from the United States (4) and the United Kingdom (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Heaton

    Heaton has the Soundex code H350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H350.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Heaton come from?
    From Old English hēah (“high”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
    How common is the surname Heaton?
    13,834 people in the United States had the surname Heaton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,318 Americans. It ranked 2,606th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Heaton?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Heaton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Heaton?
    Patricia Heaton, American actress (born 1958), followed by Charlie Heaton.
    Where is the surname Heaton most common?
    Wikidata records people named Heaton in the United States and the United Kingdom.
    What type of surname is Heaton?
    Heaton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Heaton getting more or less common?
    More common. 13,700 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,834 in 2010, up 1.0%.