Heyward
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Official in charge of fences and enclosures; literally ‘enclosure guardian’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Heyward is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Official in charge of fences and enclosures; literally ‘enclosure guardian’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Heyward counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4.9K | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 7 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 6 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Heyward is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, DuBose, US lyricist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas Heywardb. 1746USsigner of the US Decleration of Independence (1746-1809)
- Duncan Clinch Heywardb. 1864USGovernor of South Carolina (1864-1943)
- DuBose Heywardb. 1885USAmerican novelist, playwright, poet (1885-1940)
- Dorothy Heywardb. 1890USAmerican playwright, lyricist (1890–1961)
- Louis M. Heywardb. 1920USAmerican screenwriter and producer
- Andy Heywardb. 1949USAmerican former chairman of CEO of DIC Entertainment
- Nick Heywardb. 1961GBBritish singer/songwriter
- Susan Heywardb. 1982USAmerican actress (born 1982)
- Jason Heywardb. 1989USAmerican baseball player (born 1989)
- Cameron Heywardb. 1989USAmerican football player (born 1989)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.9K | #6,904 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.7K | #6,923 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #6,994 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Heyward have the most bearers?
- Heyward is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- What does the name Heyward mean, and where does it come from?
- Official in charge of fences and enclosures; literally ‘enclosure guardian’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What do you want to know about Heyward?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/heywardThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Heyward”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.