Heron

At the 2020 census, 3,870 Americans bore the surname Heron — 8,195th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 77,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,870
Rank: 8,195th
How common: 1 in 77,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

As an English and French surname, from heron.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 63.1%
Black, not Hispanic 21.8%
Hispanic or Latino 7.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Heron

Blake Heron (1982–2017)American actor

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

Surnames like Heron

Also a first name

Heron has been given to 702 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2024. 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.