The surname Heist
A surname, carried by 1,556 people in the United States.
1 syllable Soundex H230
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,556 people named Heist in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 198,423 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,470.
#17,958
rank among US surnames
1,556
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+5.9%
change since 2000 (was #17,613)
Who is named Heist
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
97% of people named Heist identified as white (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 97%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.8%
- Two or more races 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Heist 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 Heist?
- 1,556 people in the United States had the surname Heist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 198,423 Americans. It ranked 17,958th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Heist?
- In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Heist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Heist getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,470 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,556 in 2010, up 5.9%.