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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