The surname Heilig
A surname, carried by 1,884 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H420
Origin
From the German and Jewish surname, from heilig (“holy”).
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,884 people named Heilig in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,878 Americans. That is down 2.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,924.
Who is named Heilig
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Heilig identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 5.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
- Two or more races 1.2%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Heilig has the Soundex code H420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H420.
Questions
- Where does the surname Heilig come from?
- From the German and Jewish surname, from heilig (“holy”).
- How common is the surname Heilig?
- 1,884 people in the United States had the surname Heilig in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,878 Americans. It ranked 15,533rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Heilig?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Heilig identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Heilig getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,924 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,884 in 2010, down 2.1%.