The surname Hedger
An English surname, carried by 1,548 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H326
Origin
English origin
From Middle English Hegger, Heger, from hegger (“one who makes or repairs hedges, a hedger”).
One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,548 people named Hedger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 199,448 Americans. That is down 7.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,678.
Who is named Hedger
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Hedger identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.9%
- Two or more races 1.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Hedger
Hedger has the Soundex code H326, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H326.
Other English surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hedger come from?
- From Middle English Hegger, Heger, from hegger (“one who makes or repairs hedges, a hedger”).
- How common is the surname Hedger?
- 1,548 people in the United States had the surname Hedger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 199,448 Americans. It ranked 18,028th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hedger?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Hedger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Hedger getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,678 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,548 in 2010, down 7.7%.