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The surname Heffley

A surname, carried by 1,230 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H140

Heffley: #21,307 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Heffley #21,307, 1,230 people Heffley: #21,307 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Heffley #21,307, 1,230 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heffley is more common than 86.9% of them.

Origin

See Hefley.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,230 people named Heffley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 251,013 Americans. That is up 5.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,171.

#21,307
rank among US surnames
1,230
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+5%
change since 2000 (was #20,935)

Who is named Heffley

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

93% of people named Heffley identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.6% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.0%
  • Two or more races 2.6%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Heffley

Heffley has the Soundex code H140, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H140.

Questions

Where does the surname Heffley come from?
See Hefley.
How common is the surname Heffley?
1,230 people in the United States had the surname Heffley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 251,013 Americans. It ranked 21,307th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heffley?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Heffley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Heffley getting more or less common?
More common. 1,171 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,230 in 2010, up 5.0%.