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    The surname Heffner

    A surname, carried by 6,980 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H156

    Heffner: #5,029 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Heffner #5,029, 6,980 people Heffner: #5,029 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Heffner #5,029, 6,980 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heffner is more common than 96.9% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,980 people named Heffner in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 44,233 Americans. That is down 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,029.

    #5,029
    rank among US surnames
    6,980
    people in 2010
    2.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #4,613)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,023Victoria6,98944,176
    #5,024Boynton6,98344,214
    #5,026Min6,98244,220
    #5,029Heffner6,98044,233

    Who is named Heffner

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

    93% of people named Heffner identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 93%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Heffner

    Heffner has the Soundex code H156, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H156.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Heffner?
    6,980 people in the United States had the surname Heffner in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 44,233 Americans. It ranked 5,029th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Heffner?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Heffner identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Heffner getting more or less common?
    Less common. 7,029 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,980 in 2010, down 0.7%.