How common is the surname Helvey?

1,478 people in the United States had the surname Helvey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 208,894 Americans. It ranked 18,622nd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Helvey getting more or less common?

More common. 1,438 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,478 in 2010, up 2.8%.

The surname Helvey

A German surname, carried by 1,478 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H410

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Helvey is more common than 88.5% of them.

Origin

German origin

Americanized spelling of German Elwig.

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 1,478 people named Helvey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 208,894 Americans. That is up 2.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,438.

#18,622

rank among US surnames

1,478

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+2.8%

change since 2000 (was #17,924)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#18,614	Hayles	1,479	208,753
#18,622	Soroka	1,478	208,894

Who is named Helvey

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

96% of people named Helvey identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, 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

Helvie

Helvey has the Soundex code H410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H410.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Helvey come from?: Americanized spelling of German Elwig.
How common is the surname Helvey?: 1,478 people in the United States had the surname Helvey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 208,894 Americans. It ranked 18,622nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Helvey?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Helvey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Helvey getting more or less common?: More common. 1,438 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,478 in 2010, up 2.8%.
What are other spellings of Helvey?: Helvie.