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    The surname Hegge

    A Dutch place surname, carried by 1,116 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex H200

    Hegge: #22,924 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Hegge #22,924, 1,116 people Hegge: #22,924 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Hegge #22,924, 1,116 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hegge is more common than 85.9% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Dutch Hegge, a shortened form of a Germanic personal name. * Borrowed from Norwegian Hegge, a topographic surname from hegg (“bird cherry tree”).

    Hegge is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,116 people named Hegge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 276,654 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,116.

    #22,924
    rank among US surnames
    1,116
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #21,742)

    Who is named Hegge

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

    95% of people named Hegge identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
    • Two or more races 1.3%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Hegge

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

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hegge come from?
    Two main origins: * Borrowed from Dutch Hegge, a shortened form of a Germanic personal name. * Borrowed from Norwegian Hegge, a topographic surname from hegg (“bird cherry tree”).
    How common is the surname Hegge?
    1,116 people in the United States had the surname Hegge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 276,654 Americans. It ranked 22,924th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hegge?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Hegge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Hegge?
    Hegge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hegge getting more or less common?
    About as common. 1,116 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,116 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.