Last Name HEAD

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Meaning Local: At the head, from residence at the head of the wood, valley, stream, etc. 'Head' is often found as a suffix in this sense: Akenhead, Birkenhead, Muirhead, etc.
Anciently written 'Hede' or 'Hide.' Probably from the place written Hede or Hide in Doomsday Book, now 'Hithe,' in Kent, England, where the earliest traces of the Head family are found. From the Anglo-Saxon 'Hithe,' a harbor, a shelter for boats.
Origin English, Irish, South african

Rank 1,180 (2000 US census) 962 (1990 US census)
Count 27,218 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 80.33%, or 21864 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 15.72%, or 4279 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.35%, or 95 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.96%, or 261 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.34%, or 365 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.29%, or 351 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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