The Higa surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,940 people carried this name — #8,398 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 74,600 people counted. About the same as in 2000 (3,925).

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Higa surname

Borrowed from Japanese 比嘉 (Higa).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Higa» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 1,487 people named Higa 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.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 732
City of Buenos Aires 510
Córdoba 112
Salta 45
Santa Fe 23
Corrientes 19
Jujuy 18
Misiones 17

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

In print

Higa in American newspapers,
1949–1952.

Newspaper page from The Hardin Tribune-Herald carrying the name Higa
The Hardin Tribune-Herald 1949-11-03
Newspaper page from The Key West Citizen carrying the name Higa
The Key West Citizen 1952-11-20

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 19,859 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Higa in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1950s.

120 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Higa. The most, 29, date from the 1910s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 1.4 times its expected share.

Articles, by state

Queensland 31
New South Wales 27
Victoria 23
South Australia 19
Western Australia 11
Tasmania 6
Northern Territory 1

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

Who carried it

People named Higa,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Shunchō Higa
    Shunchō Higa 1883–1977 · historian
  • Kazuko Higa
    Kazuko Higa 1924–1974
  • Augusto Higa Oshiro
    Augusto Higa Oshiro 1946–2023 · writer
  • Ryuchell
    Ryuchell 1995–2023 · singer
  • Seikan Higa 1887–1985 · Christian minister

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped — Augusto Higa Oshiro: Feria del Libro Ricardo Palma, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); Ryuchell: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); the others are in the public domain or CC0 · 33 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Higa,
in the records of 2 countries.

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 States607 records

607 records of the Higa name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 319
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 165
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 121
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 2
  1. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Sadayasu Higa

    Born 1928; from Hawaii. U.S. Army, light weapons infantryman; killed in action 1951 in North Korea. Buried at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

    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 Thomas T. Higa

    Born 1919 in Hawaii. Enlisted 1944; driver from Hawaii. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1970, buried at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

    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 Carl Jitsuo Higa

    U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Born 1932, died 1980; buried at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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

Showing 3 of 607 records for Higa in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · 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).

France1 record

1 record of the Higa name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Eugenie Marguerite Albertine Higa

    Born 1925 in Touho; died 1996 in Paris.

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

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Surnames next to Higa.

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