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The HEAPS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,197 12841 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 359 12469 0.001 7
Change since 1880 +1838 -372 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 91 15430 0.001 6
United Kingdom 1,199 4520 0.003 26
Top States for HEAPS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 431 701 0.019 193
Pennsylvania 292 5404 0.002 24
California 180 14214 0.001 5
Maryland 144 4223 0.003 27
Florida 109 16261 0.001 7
Top States for HEAPS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Utah 431 701 0.019 193
Idaho 40 4850 0.003 31
Delaware 22 6468 0.003 28
Maryland 144 4223 0.003 27
Montana 22 6880 0.002 24

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HEAPS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HEAPS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HEAPS in Utah than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HEAPS by picking someone at random in Utah than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HEAPS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HEAPS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HEAPS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HEAPS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 52 2.37
Mixed Race 35 1.59
Black/African American 16 0.73
White (Caucasian) 2,079 94.63
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HEAPS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HEAPS in historical publications

HEAPS. HEAP. Probably the same as Monceux, which see.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HEAPS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEAPS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HEAPS

The following words are slight variants of HEAPS that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.