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    The surname Hege

    A surname, carried by 1,591 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H200

    Hege: #17,657 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hege #17,657, 1,591 people Hege: #17,657 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hege #17,657, 1,591 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hege is more common than 89.1% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,591 people named Hege in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 194,058 Americans. That is up 10% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,446.

    #17,657
    rank among US surnames
    1,591
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +10%
    change since 2000 (was #17,846)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,651Heidel1,592193,936
    #17,657Dattilo1,591194,058
    #17,662Brownstein1,590194,180

    Who is named Hege

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

    96% of people named Hege identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.1% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
    • Two or more races 1.1%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Hege

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

    Questions

    How common is the surname Hege?
    1,591 people in the United States had the surname Hege in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 194,058 Americans. It ranked 17,657th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hege?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hege identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Hege getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,446 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,591 in 2010, up 10%.