Heil

7,662 people in the United States were counted with the surname Heil in the 2020 census, making it the 4,497th most common in the country. That is about one person in 39,000.

By the numbers

People: 7,662
Rank: 4,497th
How common: 1 in 39,000
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin German

As a German surname, shortened from Heinrich. As a German and Dutch surname, from the name Heila, from hail (“whole”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Heil

Jerry Heil (born 1995)Ukrainian singer-songwriter and YouTuber
Hubertus Heil (born 1972)German politician (SPD), federal minister of labour
Jennifer Heil (born 1983)Canadian freestyle skier
Oskar Heil (1908–1994)German electrical engineer
Erik Heil (born 1989)German sailor

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

Surnames like Heil

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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.