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The HEFFNER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,029 4613 0.003 26
United States (1880 census) 2,040 2936 0.004 41
Change since 1880 +4989 -1677 -0.001 -15
Other Countries
Australia 5 138071 0 0
United Kingdom 9 30728 0 0
Top States for HEFFNER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,727 764 0.014 141
Ohio 616 2298 0.005 54
North Carolina 507 2257 0.006 63
California 354 7766 0.001 10
Florida 347 5783 0.002 22
Top States for HEFFNER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,727 764 0.014 141
North Carolina 507 2257 0.006 63
Maryland 298 2090 0.006 56
Ohio 616 2298 0.005 54
Idaho 52 3625 0.004 40

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

Classification and Origin of HEFFNER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 199 2.83
Mixed Race 75 1.07
White (Hispanic) 75 1.07
Asian/Pacific 30 0.43
Native American/Alaskan 27 0.38
White (Caucasian) 6,623 94.22

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

Meaning of HEFFNER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HEFFNER.

Similar names to HEFFNER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEFFNER.

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 HEFFNER

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