Hacker

At the 2020 census, 12,586 Americans bore the surname Hacker — 2,789th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 23,700.

By the numbers

People: 12,586
Rank: 2,789th
How common: 1 in 23,700
Per 100,000: 4.2

Where the name comes from

English, Dutch, German and Jewish occupational surname, all from the noun hacker (“one who hacks”). The Jewish form probably arrives via Yiddish העקער, from צעהאַקן (see German hacken).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Hacker described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Black, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Hacker

Marcel Hacker (born 1977)German rower
Marilyn Hacker (born 1942)American writer
Katharina Hacker (born 1967)German writer
Peter Hacker (born 1939)British philosopher
Arthur Hacker (1858–1919)English painter

People named Hacker with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Hacker

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.