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    The surname Higley

    A surname, carried by 4,298 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H240

    Higley: #7,723 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Higley #7,723, 4,298 people Higley: #7,723 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Higley #7,723, 4,298 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Higley is more common than 95.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 4,298 people named Higley in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 71,835 Americans. That is up 3.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,154.

    #7,723
    rank among US surnames
    4,298
    people in 2010
    1.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +3.5%
    change since 2000 (was #7,396)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #7,717Stockdale4,30171,785
    #7,720Theobald4,30071,801
    #7,721Till4,29971,818
    #7,723Higley4,29871,835
    #7,724Esser4,29771,851
    #7,725Wisner4,29671,868

    Who is named Higley

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

    95% of people named Higley identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Higley

    Higley has the Soundex code H240, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H240.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Higley?
    4,298 people in the United States had the surname Higley in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 71,835 Americans. It ranked 7,723rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Higley?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Higley identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Higley getting more or less common?
    More common. 4,154 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,298 in 2010, up 3.5%.