Heyward

4,676 people in the United States were counted with the surname Heyward in the 2020 census, making it the 6,923rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 63,900.

By the numbers

People: 4,676
Rank: 6,923rd
How common: 1 in 63,900
Per 100,000: 1.6

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 79.0%
White, not Hispanic 13.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Heyward

DuBose Heyward (1885–1940)American novelist, playwright, poet
Susan Heyward (born 1982)American actress
Jason Heyward (born 1989)American baseball player
Thomas Heyward, Jr. (1746–1809)signer of the US Decleration of Independence

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

Surnames like Heyward

Also a first name

Heyward has been given to 2,018 American babies as a first name since 1896, peaking in 1928. 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.