Heiken Family History
- Heiken Name Meaning
- North German and Dutch: patronymic from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Haio, a short form of a compound personal name formed with hag- ‘enclosure’, ‘fenced area’ as the first element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,729 Historical Documents with Heiken on Ancestry
- 4,463 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,612 Census and Voter Lists
- 276 Military Records
- 135 Immigration Records
- 3,243 Member Trees
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Number of Heiken families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Heiken families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Heiken census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Heiken census records
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