Surname statistics for Heaney

There are approximately 5,323 people named Heaney in the UK. That makes it the 1,979th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 84 are named Heaney.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)53231979N/A84
United Kingdom (1881 census)51467140.00217
Change since 1881+4809+4735+0.006+67
Other Countries
United States39287810N/A15
Australia6082661N/A37

Politics

People with the surname Heaney are less likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Conservative.

More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Heaney
Michael Heaney
David Heaney
Peter Heaney
Mark Heaney
William Heaney
Martin Heaney
Patrick Heaney
Sean Heaney
Paul Heaney
Jonathan Heaney
Robert Heaney
James Heaney
Kevin Heaney
Andrew Heaney
Christopher Heaney
Joseph Heaney
Richard Heaney
Thomas Heaney
Brian Heaney

Top female forenames

Mary Heaney
Susan Heaney
Catherine Heaney
Rosemary Heaney
Wendy Heaney
Sandra Heaney
Christine Heaney
Karen Heaney
Margaret Heaney
Nuala Heaney
Maureen Heaney
Emma Heaney
Elizabeth Heaney
Sarah Heaney
Caroline Heaney
Jane Heaney
Deborah Heaney
Megan Heaney
Samantha Heaney
Dian Heaney

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.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there 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!

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 UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.