Last name: HIGHLAND
Welcome at Geneanet!
With Geneanet, find your ancestors from home, create your family tree for free, and explore and share your family history. Genealogy has never been easier, thanks to our database of 9 billion individuals, and our community of enthusiasts.
All you have to know about the last name HIGHLAND
Last name frequency
HIGHLAND : This last name is indexed 13,963 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HIGHLAND : 1: English and Irish (Offaly): variant of Hyland.2: Americanized form of Norwegian Høyland (see Hoyland).3: Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Högland (see Hogland) or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname or an adoption of the cognate English surname (see 1 above and Hyland).4: Americanized form of German Heiland. Compare Hyland.
Learn moreVariants of last name
The spelling of names may have changed over the centuries. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree.
Search a name
Discover your ancestors and build your family tree step by step through billions of data included in our members' family trees and through civil records.
Most popular first names
- Mary (2,191)
- John (627)
- George (501)
- Thomas (342)
- July (327)
- June (278)
- March (264)
- William (264)
- April (254)
- James (239)
- Virgil (223)
- Line (219)
- Henry (187)
- Scott (160)
- Robert (158)
- Elizabeth (154)
- Ross (147)
- Sarah (146)
- Mark (132)
- Charles (131)
- Richard (116)
- Gordon (105)
- Frank (97)
- Wellington (91)
- Glen (82)
- Patrick (80)
- Catherine (79)
- Virginia (75)
- Margaret (72)
- Michael (68)
- Duncan (67)
- Hannah (67)
- Ann (64)
- Willie (63)
- Peter (62)
- Nellie (57)
- Miss (56)
- Rosa (56)
- Edward (55)
- Victoria (51)
- Cecil (50)
- Bridget (47)
- Jane (47)
- Daniel (44)
- Joseph (44)
- Clyde (43)
- Jan (41)
- Martha (40)
- Jacob (37)
- Mackenzie (36)
- Will (36)
- Hope (33)
- Mrs. (33)
- Bernardino (32)
- Eliza (32)
- Harry (32)
- Arthur (30)
- Raymond (30)
- Friend Robert (29)
- Mr. (29)
Most indexed places
- San Bernardino (676)
- Canterbury (409)
- Highland (374)
- New (186)
- San-Bernardino (185)
- Leeds (156)
- Clarksburg (140)
- Wellington (132)
- Otago (131)
- Ireland (110)
- Ashburton (107)
- Timaru (102)
- Chatham (100)
- Auckland (92)
- Pennsylvania (86)
- Chicago (84)
- Greenock (83)
- Washington (82)
- West (81)
- Redlands (80)
- Los (77)
- Monterey (77)
- Oamaru (77)
- Library (66)
- Chatham, St Mary (61)
- Scotland (61)
- Home (59)
- London (59)
- Manawatu-Wanganui (58)
- Tenterden (53)
- Christchurch (51)
- Maidstone (51)
- Dublin (50)
- Melbourne (49)
- Missouri (49)
- Phoenixville, Chester County (47)
- Montecito (46)
- Ohio (45)
- Rye, Sussex (45)
- Lewis (41)
- Paris (40)
- Illinois (39)
- Scituate (39)
- South (39)
- All Saints, Maidstone (38)
- California (38)
- Los Angeles (37)
- Dunoon (36)
- Guilford, New Haven (36)
- Hopland (36)
- Philadelphia (35)
- St Mary,rotherhithe,london (34)
- Dunedin (33)
- Riverside (33)
- Waikato (32)
- Waterford (32)
- Meath (30)
- Folkestone (29)
- Mayfield, Sussex (29)
- North (29)
Most indexed countries
- United States (7,185)
- United Kingdom (3,082)
- New Zealand (1,998)
- Ireland (622)
- Australia (358)
- France (100)
- Canada (95)
- Unknown country (77)
- Netherlands (31)
- Norway (29)
- Italy (26)
- Germany (14)
- Switzerland (11)
- Algeria (11)
- India (10)
- Argentina (7)
- Liberia (7)
- Paraguay (7)
Available collections for this name
- Newspapers
(7,927) - Archives
(3,044) - Books
(1,557) - Family Trees
(1,319) - Other
(75) - Magazines
(27) - Obituaries
(11) - Cemeteries
(2) - Memorials
(1)