Hearn

At the 2020 census, 14,195 Americans bore the surname Hearn — 2,477th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,100.

By the numbers

People: 14,195
Rank: 2,477th
How common: 1 in 21,100
Per 100,000: 4.8

Where the name comes from

As an Irish surname, from Ó hEachthighearna from each (“horse”) + tighearna (“lord, master”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 72.8%
Black, not Hispanic 18.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904)Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West
Amber Hearn (born 1984)New Zealand footballer
Lacey Hearn (1881–1969)American Olympic runner
George Hearn (born 1934)American actor

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

Surnames like Hearn

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.