How common is the surname Heritage?

1,124 people in the United States had the surname Heritage in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 274,685 Americans. It ranked 22,791st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Heritage?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Heritage identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Heritage getting more or less common?

More common. 1,067 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,124 in 2010, up 5.3%.

The surname Heritage

A surname, carried by 1,124 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex H632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Heritage is more common than 86% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,124 people named Heritage in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 274,685 Americans. That is up 5.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,067.

#22,791

rank among US surnames

1,124

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.3%

change since 2000 (was #22,505)

Who is named Heritage

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

92% of people named Heritage identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.6%
Two or more races 2.3%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Heritage

Heritage has the Soundex code H632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H632.

Questions

How common is the surname Heritage?: 1,124 people in the United States had the surname Heritage in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 274,685 Americans. It ranked 22,791st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Heritage?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Heritage identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Heritage getting more or less common?: More common. 1,067 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,124 in 2010, up 5.3%.