How common is the surname Heminger?

1,139 people in the United States had the surname Heminger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 271,067 Americans. It ranked 22,559th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heminger?

In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Heminger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Heminger getting more or less common?

More common. 1,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,139 in 2010, up 0.4%.

The surname Heminger

A surname, carried by 1,139 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H552

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heminger is more common than 86.1% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,139 people named Heminger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 271,067 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,134.

#22,559

rank among US surnames

1,139

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.4%

change since 2000 (was #21,479)

Who is named Heminger

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

87% of people named Heminger identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 87%
American Indian and Alaska Native 8.2%
Two or more races 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Heminger

Heminger has the Soundex code H552, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H552.

Questions

How common is the surname Heminger?: 1,139 people in the United States had the surname Heminger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 271,067 Americans. It ranked 22,559th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heminger?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Heminger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.2% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Heminger getting more or less common?: More common. 1,134 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,139 in 2010, up 0.4%.