How common is the surname Hake?

3,918 people in the United States had the surname Hake in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,802 Americans. It ranked 8,432nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hake?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Hake identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Hake getting more or less common?

More common. 3,816 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,918 in 2010, up 2.7%.

The surname Hake

A Norse surname, carried by 3,918 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex H200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hake is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

Norse origin

* As a North Germanic surname, from Old Norse haki (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô. * As a north German surname, spelling variant of Haack. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from haag (“hedge”). * As a Jewish/Yiddish surname, spelling variant of Hacke, from האַק (hak, “axe”).

One of 126 Norse surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,918 people named Hake in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 78,802 Americans. That is up 2.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,816.

#8,432

rank among US surnames

3,918

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+2.7%

change since 2000 (was #8,017)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,427	Hagood	3,922	78,721
#8,429	Campana	3,920	78,762
#8,430	Maurice	3,919	78,782
#8,432	Hake	3,918	78,802
#8,434	Dameron	3,917	78,822

Who is named Hake

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Hake identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.8% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.8%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hake

Hake has the Soundex code H200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H200.

Other Norse surnames

All 126 Norse surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Hake come from?: * As a North Germanic surname, from Old Norse haki (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô. * As a north German surname, spelling variant of Haack. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from haag (“hedge”). * As a Jewish/Yiddish surname, spelling variant of Hacke, from האַק (hak, “axe”).
How common is the surname Hake?: 3,918 people in the United States had the surname Hake in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,802 Americans. It ranked 8,432nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hake?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Hake identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Hake getting more or less common?: More common. 3,816 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,918 in 2010, up 2.7%.