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    The surname Hesketh

    A Norse place surname, carried by 523 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H230

    Hesketh: #41,579 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Hesketh #41,579, 523 people Hesketh: #41,579 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Hesketh #41,579, 523 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hesketh is more common than 74.4% of them.

    Origin

    Norse origin

    Habitational surname from the village of Hesketh Bank, in Lancashire, from Old Norse hestr (“stallion”) + skeið (“racecourse”).

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

    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 523 people named Hesketh in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 590,336 Americans. That is down 24% since 2000, when the Census counted 691.

    #41,579
    rank among US surnames
    523
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -24.3%
    change since 2000 (was #31,621)

    Who is named Hesketh

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

    96% of people named Hesketh identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Hesketh

    Hesketh has the Soundex code H230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H230.

    Other Norse surnames

    All 126 Norse surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Hesketh come from?
    Habitational surname from the village of Hesketh Bank, in Lancashire, from Old Norse hestr (“stallion”) + skeið (“racecourse”).
    How common is the surname Hesketh?
    523 people in the United States had the surname Hesketh in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 590,336 Americans. It ranked 41,579th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Hesketh?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Hesketh identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Hesketh?
    Hesketh is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Hesketh getting more or less common?
    Less common. 691 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 523 in 2010, down 24%.
    What are other spellings of Hesketh?
    Heskett.