How common is the surname Heller?

25,373 people in the United States had the surname Heller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,168 Americans. It ranked 1,399th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heller?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Heller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Heller?

Joseph Heller, American writer, followed by Dean Heller.

Where is the surname Heller most common?

Wikidata records people named Heller in the United States, France and Brazil and 2 other countries.

Is the surname Heller getting more or less common?

About as common. 25,371 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 25,373 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Heller

A place surname, carried by 25,373 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H460

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heller is more common than 99.1% of them.

Origin

* As a German surname, from a coin known as the häller, first minted at Schwäbisch Hall, compare Hall. Also as a Jewish habitational surname for someone from this area. * Also as German surname, variant of Helle, itself from Helle (“hell”). * As a Dutch surname, variant of Helder, from the adjective helder (“clear, bright”). * As an English surname, variant of Hillier. * Also as an English surname, from Middle English heller (“dweller on the hill,”) see Hiller and Huller. * Also as a Jewish surname, from German hell (“bright, light”) or Yiddish העל (hel) of the same meaning.

Heller is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 25,373 people named Heller in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 12,168 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 25,371.

#1,399

rank among US surnames

25,373

people in 2010

8.6

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #1,274)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,390	Serna	25,503	12,106
#1,391	Meier	25,486	12,114
#1,392	Robison	25,450	12,131
#1,393	Swartz	25,444	12,134
#1,394	Seymour	25,436	12,138
#1,395	Gleason	25,416	12,148
#1,396	Vela	25,414	12,149

Who is named Heller

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

94% of people named Heller identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Hellers

13 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Joseph Heller
American writer, 1923–1999
Dean Heller
American politician, born 1960
Marielle Heller
American director, writer and actress, born 1979
André Heller
Austrian artist, author, singer and actor, born 1947
Jerry Heller
American businessman (1940–2016)
Randee Heller
American actress, born 1947
Edmund Heller
American zoologist (1875-1939)
Walter Heller
American economist (1915–1987)
Amos Arthur Heller
American botanist (1867-1944)
André Heller
Brazilian volleyball player, born 1975
László Heller
(1907–1980) mechanical engineer
Mike Heller
American drummer, born 1982

Notable Hellers come mostly from the United States (9), France (1) and Brazil (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Heller

Heller has the Soundex code H460, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H460.

Questions

Where does the surname Heller come from?: * As a German surname, from a coin known as the häller, first minted at Schwäbisch Hall, compare Hall. Also as a Jewish habitational surname for someone from this area. * Also as German surname, variant of Helle, itself from Helle (“hell”). * As a Dutch surname, variant of Helder, from the…
How common is the surname Heller?: 25,373 people in the United States had the surname Heller in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 12,168 Americans. It ranked 1,399th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heller?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Heller identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Heller?: Joseph Heller, American writer, followed by Dean Heller.
Where is the surname Heller most common?: Wikidata records people named Heller in the United States, France and Brazil and 2 other countries.
What type of surname is Heller?: Heller is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Heller getting more or less common?: About as common. 25,371 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 25,373 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.