Higa

Higa is the 8,851st most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,553 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 84,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,553
Rank: 8,851st
How common: 1 in 84,100
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Japanese

Borrowed from Japanese 比嘉.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 72.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 12.8%
Hispanic or Latino 8.6%
White, not Hispanic 5.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Higa

Ryan Higa (born 1990)American Internet personality and actor
Ryoto Higa (born 1990)Japanese association football player

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

Surnames like Higa

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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.