The HERON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,561	8519	0.001	13
United States (1880 census)	1,281	4423	0.003	26
Change since 1880	+2280	-4096	-0.002	-13
Other Countries
Australia	1,047	1575	0.006	64
United Kingdom	4,931	1271	0.011	107

Top States for HERON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	470	4127	0.002	25
Florida	418	4821	0.003	26
California	347	7824	0.001	10
Pennsylvania	311	4917	0.003	25
Michigan	191	6410	0.002	19
Top States for HERON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	23	2857	0.005	47
Florida	418	4821	0.003	26
Pennsylvania	311	4917	0.003	25
New York	470	4127	0.002	25
Maryland	128	4608	0.002	24

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

Classification and Origin of HERON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Nickname

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

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	743	20.86
White (Hispanic)	189	5.31
Mixed Race	100	2.81
Asian/Pacific	26	0.73
Native American/Alaskan	19	0.53
White (Caucasian)	2,484	69.76

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

Similar names to HERON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERON.

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.