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The HECHT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,333 4457 0.003 27
United States (1880 census) 1,058 5204 0.002 21
Change since 1880 +6275 +747 +0.001 +6
Other Countries
Australia 44 28470 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HECHT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,114 1506 0.006 59
California 729 3813 0.002 22
Florida 537 3537 0.003 34
New Jersey 447 1928 0.005 53
Michigan 379 2839 0.004 38
Top States for HECHT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 1,114 1506 0.006 59
New Jersey 447 1928 0.005 53
Missouri 288 2399 0.005 51
Vermont 31 2989 0.005 51
Washington DC 28 2010 0.005 49

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HECHT live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HECHT represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HECHT in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HECHT by picking someone at random in New York than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HECHT

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HECHT surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HECHT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 94 1.28
Mixed Race 68 0.93
Asian/Pacific 37 0.5
Black/African American 12 0.16
Native American/Alaskan 9 0.12
White (Caucasian) 7,113 97

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HECHT surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of HECHT in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of HECHT.

Similar names to HECHT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HECHT.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HECHT

The following words are slight variants of HECHT that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.