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The HESS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 57,822 518 0.021 214
United States (1880 census) 16,306 343 0.033 326
Change since 1880 +41516 -175 -0.012 -112
Other Countries
Australia 434 3653 0.003 27
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HESS by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 8,884 73 0.072 723
Ohio 3,978 275 0.035 350
California 3,802 813 0.011 112
Florida 3,029 621 0.019 190
New York 2,777 573 0.015 146
Top States for HESS by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 8,884 73 0.072 723
West Virginia 1,127 191 0.062 623
Idaho 618 201 0.048 478
Utah 1,004 220 0.045 450
Ohio 3,978 275 0.035 350

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

Classification and Origin of HESS

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 HESS 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 HESS in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 734 1.27
Mixed Race 596 1.03
Black/African American 497 0.86
Asian/Pacific 278 0.48
Native American/Alaskan 243 0.42
White (Caucasian) 55,474 95.94

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

Meaning of HESS in historical publications

HESS. HESSE A native of Hesse; a Hessian.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HESS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HESS.

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 HESS

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