Last Name HEFNER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Not available

Origin	Jewish, Austrian, Hungarian

Rank	4,044 (2000 US census)	3,649 (1990 US census)

Count	8,073 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

95.84%, or 7737 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.72%, or 58 total occurrences, as black,
0.33%, or 27 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.66%, or 53 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.02%, or 82 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.44%, or 116 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...