Hewitt

At the 2020 census, 28,525 Americans bore the surname Hewitt — 1,211th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,500.

By the numbers

People: 28,525
Rank: 1,211th
How common: 1 in 10,500
Per 100,000: 9.5

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 79.0%
Black, not Hispanic 12.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born 1979)American actress and singer
Lleyton Hewitt (born 1981)Australian tennis player and tennis coach
Bob Hewitt (born 1940)South African convicted rapist and professional tennis player
Angela Hewitt (born 1958)Canadian classical pianist
Emma Hewitt (born 1988)Australian singer and songwriter
Steve Hewitt (born 1971)British drummer
Jacqueline Hewitt (born 1958)American astrophysicist
Don Hewitt (1922–2009)American television news producer

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

Surnames like Hewitt

Also a first name

Hewitt has been given to 981 American babies as a first name since 1907, 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.