How common is the surname Hight?

5,629 people in the United States had the surname Hight in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,849 Americans. It ranked 6,094th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Hight getting more or less common?

More common. 5,540 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,629 in 2010, up 1.6%.

The surname Hight

A place surname, carried by 5,629 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H230

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hight is more common than 96.2% of them.

Origin

English topographic surname, from the noun height. Compare Haight.

Hight is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 5,629 people named Hight in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 54,849 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 5,540.

#6,094

rank among US surnames

5,629

people in 2010

1.9

per 100,000 Americans

+1.6%

change since 2000 (was #5,732)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#6,088	Laguna	5,633	54,810
#6,091	Worsham	5,631	54,830
#6,093	Tolson	5,630	54,839
#6,094	Brenneman	5,629	54,849
#6,097	Westcott	5,626	54,878
#6,098	Coria	5,625	54,888

Who is named Hight

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

87% of people named Hight identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 87%
Black (not Hispanic) 7.0%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 2.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hight

Hight has the Soundex code H230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H230.

Questions

Where does the surname Hight come from?: English topographic surname, from the noun height. Compare Haight.
How common is the surname Hight?: 5,629 people in the United States had the surname Hight in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 54,849 Americans. It ranked 6,094th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hight?: In the 2010 Census, 87% of people named Hight identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Hight?: Hight is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Hight getting more or less common?: More common. 5,540 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 5,629 in 2010, up 1.6%.