Hayward

At the 2020 census, 15,321 Americans bore the surname Hayward — 2,321st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,500.

By the numbers

People: 15,321
Rank: 2,321st
How common: 1 in 19,500
Per 100,000: 5.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hayward described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 68.3%
Black, not Hispanic 21.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%

Notable people called Hayward

Susan Hayward (1917–1975)American actress
Gordon Hayward (born 1990)American basketball player
Kara Hayward (born 1998)American actress
Justin Hayward (born 1946)British rock musician
Roxane Hayward (born 1991)South African actress
Louis Hayward (1909–1985)South African actor
Thomas B. Hayward (1924–2022)Chief of Naval Operations for the United States Navy
Jeremy Hayward (born 1993)Australian field hockey player

People named Hayward with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hayward

Also a first name

Hayward has been given to 5,064 American babies as a first name since 1884, peaking in 1956. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.