How common is the surname Heckathorn?

1,538 people in the United States had the surname Heckathorn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,745 Americans. It ranked 18,106th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heckathorn?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Heckathorn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Heckathorn getting more or less common?

More common. 1,507 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,538 in 2010, up 2.1%.

The surname Heckathorn

A surname, carried by 1,538 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H236

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heckathorn is more common than 88.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,538 people named Heckathorn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 200,745 Americans. That is up 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,507.

#18,106

rank among US surnames

1,538

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.1%

change since 2000 (was #17,296)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,098	Quayle	1,539	200,614
#18,106	Chumbley	1,538	200,745

Who is named Heckathorn

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

94% of people named Heckathorn identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

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 Heckathorn

Hector

Heckathorn has the Soundex code H236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H236.

Questions

How common is the surname Heckathorn?: 1,538 people in the United States had the surname Heckathorn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 200,745 Americans. It ranked 18,106th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heckathorn?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Heckathorn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Heckathorn getting more or less common?: More common. 1,507 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,538 in 2010, up 2.1%.