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

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'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.

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.