Heath

49,412 people in the United States were counted with the surname Heath in the 2020 census, making it the 672nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,049.

By the numbers

People: 49,412
Rank: 672nd
How common: 1 in 6,049
Per 100,000: 16.5

Where the name comes from

English surname, from the noun heath.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 77.3%
Black, not Hispanic 13.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Heath

Edward Heath (1916–2005)Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974
Tobin Heath (born 1988)American soccer player
Phil Heath (born 1979)American bodybuilder
Percy Heath (1923–2005)American musician
Jimmy Heath (1926–2020)American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader
Albert Heath (1935–2024)American drummer
Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940)British civil servant, mathematician and classicist
Heath (1968–2023)Japanese musician

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

Surnames like Heath

Also a first name

Heath has been given to 29,704 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 1974. 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.