Hector

Hector is the 7,349th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,373 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 68,400.

By the numbers

People: 4,373
Rank: 7,349th
How common: 1 in 68,400
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 48.3%
White, not Hispanic 34.9%
Hispanic or Latino 11.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hector

Jonas Hector (born 1990)German association football player
Sara Hector (born 1992)Swedish alpine skier
Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing (1729–1794)French admiral during the War of American Independence
Michael Hector (born 1992)association football player
Jamie Hector (born 1975)American actor
James Hector (1834–1907)Scottish born New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon
Jonny Hector (born 1964)chess player

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

Surnames like Hector

Also a first name

Hector has been given to 109,209 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2005. See it as a given name.

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.