The Heaps Family Name

Arms linked to Heap and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

What Heaps means

The last name Heaps is another written form of Heap, a well-known English family name. The name is generally explained as “A dweller at, or near, a heap, i.e., hill”.

Heaps adds a patronymic ending to Heap, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Heaps ranked 13,241 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,306 people answering to the name. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

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