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    The surname Hendy

    An English nickname surname, carried by 569 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H530

    Hendy: #38,801 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hendy #38,801, 569 people Hendy: #38,801 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Hendy #38,801, 569 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hendy is more common than 76.1% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Nickname for a pleasant and affable man, from Middle English hende (“courteous, kind, gentle”).

    Hendy is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

    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 569 people named Hendy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 542,611 Americans. That is down 9.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 625.

    #38,801
    rank among US surnames
    569
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -9%
    change since 2000 (was #34,308)

    Who is named Hendy

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

    65% of people named Hendy identified as white (not Hispanic), 25% as Black (not Hispanic) and 6.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 65%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 25%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Hendee

    Surnames that sound like Hendy

    Hendy has the Soundex code H530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H530.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hendy come from?
    Nickname for a pleasant and affable man, from Middle English hende (“courteous, kind, gentle”).
    How common is the surname Hendy?
    569 people in the United States had the surname Hendy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 542,611 Americans. It ranked 38,801st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hendy?
    In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Hendy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 25% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Hendy?
    Hendy is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
    Is the surname Hendy getting more or less common?
    Less common. 625 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 569 in 2010, down 9.0%.
    What are other spellings of Hendy?
    Hendee.