The surname Hendon
An English place surname, carried by 3,398 people in the United States.
Pronounced /hɛndən/ 2 syllables Soundex H535
Origin
English origin
From Old English hēan, dative case of hēah (“high”), + dūn (“hill”).
Hendon is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 3,398 people named Hendon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 90,861 Americans. That is up 4.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,260.
Who is named Hendon
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
74% of people named Hendon identified as white (not Hispanic), 19% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 74%
- Black (not Hispanic) 19%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.2%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Hendon
Hendon has the Soundex code H535, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H535.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hendon come from?
- From Old English hēan, dative case of hēah (“high”), + dūn (“hill”).
- How common is the surname Hendon?
- 3,398 people in the United States had the surname Hendon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 90,861 Americans. It ranked 9,567th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hendon?
- In the 2010 Census, 74% of people named Hendon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 19% as Black (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Hendon?
- Hendon is /hɛndən/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Hendon?
- Hendon is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Hendon getting more or less common?
- More common. 3,260 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,398 in 2010, up 4.2%.