How common is the surname Heintz?

5,655 people in the United States had the surname Heintz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,597 Americans. It ranked 6,067th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heintz?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Heintz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Heintz getting more or less common?

More common. 5,579 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,655 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Heintz

A surname, carried by 5,655 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H532

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heintz is more common than 96.3% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,655 people named Heintz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,597 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,579.

#6,067

rank among US surnames

5,655

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #5,701)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,058	Witkowski	5,662	54,529
#6,059	Waits	5,661	54,539
#6,061	Dillman	5,660	54,549
#6,062	Boatright	5,659	54,558
#6,063	Rolon	5,658	54,568
#6,065	Thelen	5,657	54,578
#6,066	Fite	5,656	54,587

Who is named Heintz

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

96% of people named Heintz identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Heintz

Heintz has the Soundex code H532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H532.

Questions

How common is the surname Heintz?: 5,655 people in the United States had the surname Heintz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,597 Americans. It ranked 6,067th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heintz?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Heintz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Heintz getting more or less common?: More common. 5,579 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,655 in 2010, up 1.4%.