Heck

Heck is the 2,641st most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,341 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 22,400.

By the numbers

People: 13,341
Rank: 2,641st
How common: 1 in 22,400
Per 100,000: 4.5

Where the name comes from

English, Dutch and south German surname, all from words meaning "hedge, " "enclosure, " "fence, " from *haggju. Compare Van Heck, Hatch.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 2.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Heck

Richard F. Heck (1931–2015)American chemist
Dennis Heck (born 1952)Lieutenant Governor of Washington since 2021
Joe Heck (born 1961)U.S. Representative
Lutz Heck (1892–1983)German zoologist and zoo director
Don Heck (1929–1995)American comics artist

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

Surnames like Heck

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.