How common is the surname Hey?

1,887 people in the United States had the surname Hey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. It ranked 15,508th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hey?

In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Hey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

Is the surname Hey getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,971 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,887 in 2010, down 4.3%.

The surname Hey

A surname, carried by 1,887 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H000

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hey is more common than 90.4% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,887 people named Hey in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. That is down 4.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,971.

#15,508

rank among US surnames

1,887

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

-4.3%

change since 2000 (was #14,033)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#15,499	Emert	1,889	163,444
#15,503	Shand	1,888	163,530
#15,508	Lucht	1,887	163,617

Who is named Hey

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

83% of people named Hey identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 3.2% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 83%
Asian and Pacific Islander 8.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hey

Hey has the Soundex code H000, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H000.

Questions

How common is the surname Hey?: 1,887 people in the United States had the surname Hey in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 163,617 Americans. It ranked 15,508th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hey?: In the 2010 Census, 83% of people named Hey identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.5% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
Is the surname Hey getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,971 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,887 in 2010, down 4.3%.