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The HECKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,436 5827 0.002 20
United States (1880 census) 1,417 4029 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +4019 -1798 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 167 8879 0.001 10
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HECKER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 454 6332 0.001 13
New York 427 4656 0.002 23
Ohio 379 3812 0.003 33
Pennsylvania 353 4462 0.003 29
Florida 346 5902 0.002 22
Top States for HECKER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 110 745 0.017 171
Montana 75 1603 0.008 83
Wisconsin 318 2285 0.006 59
Wyoming 26 2553 0.005 53
Washington 213 3629 0.004 36

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

Classification and Origin of HECKER

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 HECKER 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 HECKER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 110 2.02
Black/African American 52 0.96
Mixed Race 44 0.81
Asian/Pacific 13 0.24
Native American/Alaskan 12 0.22
White (Caucasian) 5,205 95.75

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

Meaning of HECKER in historical publications

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

Similar names to HECKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HECKER.

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 HECKER

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