Last Name HEATHER

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Meaning	Local: The heather, one who lived on the heath. The little moorland shrub is called heath-er because it is an 'inhabitant of the heath.' Heather is also a parish in county Leicester, four miles from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. This must be looked upon as the true derivation.

Origin	English, Irish, South african

Rank	18,883 (2000 US census)	19,155 (1990 US census)

Count	1,338 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

90.81%, or 1215 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.47%, or 33 total occurrences, as black,
1.87%, or 25 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.75%, or 10 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.57%, or 21 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.54%, or 34 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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