Heaton

Heaton is the 2,707th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,003 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 23,000.

By the numbers

People: 13,003
Rank: 2,707th
How common: 1 in 23,000
Per 100,000: 4.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English hēah (“high”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Heaton

Tom Heaton (born 1986)English association football player
Patricia Heaton (born 1958)American actress
Charlie Heaton (born 1994)British actor
Jennison Heaton (1904–1971)American Skeleton racer
John Heaton (1908–1976)American Skeleton racer
Paul Heaton (born 1962)English singer-songwriter
Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)American journalist

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

Surnames like Heaton

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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.