The surname Hegwood
A surname, carried by 1,826 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H230
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,826 people named Hegwood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 169,083 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,813.
#15,912
rank among US surnames
1,826
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+0.7%
change since 2000 (was #14,958)
Who is named Hegwood
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
72% of people named Hegwood identified as white (not Hispanic), 23% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 72%
- Black (not Hispanic) 23%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Hegwood has the Soundex code H230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H230.
Questions
- How common is the surname Hegwood?
- 1,826 people in the United States had the surname Hegwood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 169,083 Americans. It ranked 15,912th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hegwood?
- In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Hegwood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 23% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Hegwood getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,813 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,826 in 2010, up 0.7%.