The HEER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,879	14544	0.001	7
United States (1880 census)	336	13108	0.001	7
Change since 1880	+1543	-1436	0	0
Other Countries
Australia	22	49036	0	1
United Kingdom	847	6006	0.002	18

Top States for HEER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	333	8311	0.001	10
Ohio	126	10703	0.001	11
New York	124	15626	0.001	7
Washington	102	7345	0.002	17
Illinois	97	13948	0.001	8
Top States for HEER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	38	2951	0.006	59
South Dakota	44	2866	0.006	58
Wyoming	12	6158	0.002	24
Idaho	27	6806	0.002	21
Arkansas	51	5664	0.002	19

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HEER

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Punjabi

Religious origin: Sikh

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HEER 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.

Ethnic distribution of HEER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	190	10.11
Mixed Race	33	1.76
White (Hispanic)	16	0.85
White (Caucasian)	1,629	86.7
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to HEER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEER.

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.