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The HEARD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,211 1469 0.008 82
United States (1880 census) 4,171 1483 0.008 83
Change since 1880 +18040 +14 0 -1
Other Countries
Australia 1,182 1397 0.007 72
United Kingdom 4,308 1462 0.009 94
Top States for HEARD by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Georgia 3,251 320 0.040 397
Texas 2,176 1263 0.010 104
Alabama 1,922 389 0.043 432
California 1,415 2438 0.004 42
Illinois 1,117 1228 0.009 90
Top States for HEARD by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Alabama 1,922 389 0.043 432
Georgia 3,251 320 0.040 397
Mississippi 699 685 0.025 246
Louisiana 1,044 673 0.023 234
Arkansas 595 635 0.022 223

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

Classification and Origin of HEARD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HEARD 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 HEARD 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 HEARD in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 444 2
White (Hispanic) 307 1.38
Native American/Alaskan 71 0.32
Asian/Pacific 67 0.3
Black/African American 11,927 53.7
White (Caucasian) 9,395 42.3

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

Meaning of HEARD in historical publications

HEARD. O.Eng. herd., a herdsman or keeper of cattle.

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 HEARD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEARD.

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 HEARD

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