How common is the surname Heimbach?

2,041 people in the United States had the surname Heimbach in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 151,272 Americans. It ranked 14,587th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heimbach?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Heimbach identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Heimbach getting more or less common?

More common. 2,034 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,041 in 2010, up 0.3%.

The surname Heimbach

A German surname, carried by 2,041 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H512

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heimbach is more common than 91% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Heimbach.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,041 people named Heimbach in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 151,272 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,034.

#14,587

rank among US surnames

2,041

people in 2010

0.7

per 100,000 Americans

+0.3%

change since 2000 (was #13,675)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#14,579	Boysen	2,043	151,124
#14,585	Strine	2,042	151,198
#14,587	Emrich	2,041	151,272
#14,591	Tarlton	2,040	151,346

Who is named Heimbach

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

96% of people named Heimbach identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Hanback
Himebaugh

Heimbach has the Soundex code H512, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H512.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Heimbach come from?: Borrowed from German Heimbach.
How common is the surname Heimbach?: 2,041 people in the United States had the surname Heimbach in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 151,272 Americans. It ranked 14,587th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heimbach?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Heimbach identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Heimbach getting more or less common?: More common. 2,034 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,041 in 2010, up 0.3%.
What are other spellings of Heimbach?: Hanback and Himebaugh.