Heston

Heston is the 11,162nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,712 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 110,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,712
Rank: 11,162nd
How common: 1 in 110,000
Per 100,000: 0.91

Where the name comes from

From Old English hǣs (“brushwood”) + tūn (“settlement”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Heston

Charlton Heston (1923–2008)American actor
Fraser Clarke Heston (born 1955)American film director, producer and screenwriter

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

Surnames like Heston

Also a first name

Heston has been given to 1,613 American babies as a first name since 1915, peaking in 2016. 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.