The HESSE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,929	5406	0.002	22
United States (1880 census)	1,706	3438	0.003	34
Change since 1880	+4223	-1968	-0.001	-12
Other Countries
Australia	307	5091	0.002	19
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HESSE by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	586	822	0.012	119
California	456	5902	0.001	13
New York	343	5406	0.002	18
Wisconsin	328	2014	0.006	61
Iowa	320	993	0.011	109
Top States for HESSE by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	586	822	0.012	119
Iowa	320	993	0.011	109
Wisconsin	328	2014	0.006	61
South Dakota	43	2686	0.006	57
Vermont	28	3410	0.005	46

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

Classification and Origin of HESSE

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 HESSE 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 HESSE in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	97	1.64
Mixed Race	58	0.98
Black/African American	38	0.64
Native American/Alaskan	32	0.54
Asian/Pacific	29	0.49
White (Caucasian)	5,675	95.72

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

Similar names to HESSE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HESSE.

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.