The Heflin surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,609 people carried this name — #4,660 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 38,800 people counted. That is up 2% from 7,431 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 119 people named Heflin live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 119

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Heflin in American newspapers,
1908.

Newspaper page from The Seattle Republican carrying the name Heflin
The Seattle Republican 1908-04-03
Newspaper page from The Seattle Republican carrying the name Heflin
The Seattle Republican 1908-04-03
Newspaper page from The Seattle Republican carrying the name Heflin
The Seattle Republican 1908-04-10

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 51,059 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Heflin in Australian newspapers,
1910s–1950s.

103 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Heflin. The most, 27, date from the 1950s.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 41
Victoria 18
South Australia 16
Queensland 9
Western Australia 9
Tasmania 5
ACT (Canberra) 3

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Heflin.

Who carried it

People named Heflin,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Robert Stell Heflin
    Robert Stell Heflin 1815–1901 · judge
  • J. Thomas Heflin
    J. Thomas Heflin 1869–1951 · lawyer
  • Van Heflin
    Van Heflin 1908–1971 · actor
  • Randy Heflin
    Randy Heflin 1918–1999 · baseball player
  • Howell Heflin
    Howell Heflin 1921–2005 · judge
  • Kate Lemaire 1875–1968 · suffragist

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Heflin,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States358 records

358 records of the Heflin name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 261
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 76
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 7
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 5
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 2
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Glenn Elden Heflin

    Born 1949; from San Jose, California. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; killed in action 1968 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam. Buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Shirley G. Heflin

    Born 1920 in Virginia. Enlisted 1942 at Baltimore, Maryland; sales clerk. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1987, buried at Quantico National Cemetery, Virginia.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Stith T. Heflin

    U.S. Army veteran of World War I. Born 1885, died 1947; buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery, Illinois.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 358 records for Heflin in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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