The HERITAGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,067	22505	0	4
United States (1880 census)	418	11109	0.001	8
Change since 1880	+649	-11396	+N/A	-4
Other Countries
Australia	347	4554	0.002	21
United Kingdom	1,494	3771	0.003	33

Top States for HERITAGE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Jersey	122	15394	0.001	14
California	95	42623	0.000	3
New York	82	40891	0.000	4
Ohio	80	28415	0.001	7
Washington	62	21189	0.001	11
Top States for HERITAGE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Delaware	29	8782	0.004	37
Alaska	16	12726	0.003	26
New Jersey	122	15394	0.001	14
Alabama	55	10547	0.001	12
Washington	62	21189	0.001	11

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of HERITAGE

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 HERITAGE 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 HERITAGE 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 HERITAGE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	43	4.03
Mixed Race	15	1.41
Native American/Alaskan	6	0.56
White (Caucasian)	1,001	93.81
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Black/African American	Less than 100	Insignificant

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

Similar names to HERITAGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERITAGE.

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.