Tracing the Heathcoat Family Name

Heathcoat is a spelling of the English surname Heathcote. The family name meaning is “Cottage on the heath”, the same as for Heathcote.

Heathcoat coat of arms

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Heathcoat, so the heraldry linked to Heathcote is a starting point, not an automatic right.

A variant of Heathcote

Before spelling was fixed, Heathcote was also written Heathcoat. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

About 330 people in the United States were recorded as Heathcoat in 2010, placing it 60,960 on the national list. For the full story, order the Heathcoat surname pack.