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The HEADY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,734 10719 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 703 7328 0.001 14
Change since 1880 +2031 -3391 0 -4
Other Countries
Australia 25 43368 0 2
United Kingdom 149 19489 0 3
Top States for HEADY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 280 2137 0.007 69
New York 234 8913 0.001 12
Tennessee 234 3476 0.004 41
Indiana 224 3779 0.004 37
Missouri 200 4015 0.004 36
Top States for HEADY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 280 2137 0.007 69
Tennessee 234 3476 0.004 41
Indiana 224 3779 0.004 37
Missouri 200 4015 0.004 36
Kansas 89 4084 0.003 33

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HEADY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HEADY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HEADY in Kentucky than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HEADY by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HEADY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HEADY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HEADY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HEADY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 95 3.47
White (Hispanic) 40 1.46
Mixed Race 36 1.32
Native American/Alaskan 23 0.84
Asian/Pacific 19 0.69
White (Caucasian) 2,521 92.21

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HEADY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HEADY in historical publications

HEADY. 1. Self-willed. "Heady, highminded." 2. Edie, Eddy, a diminutive of Edward.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HEADY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEADY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HEADY

The following words are slight variants of HEADY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.