Hess

57,557 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hess in the 2020 census, making it the 573rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 5,193.

By the numbers

People: 57,557
Rank: 573rd
How common: 1 in 5,193
Per 100,000: 19.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hess

Rudolf Hess (1894–1987)German Nazi leader and Reich Minister without Portfolio
Victor Francis Hess (1883–1964)Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate
Walter Rudolf Hess (1881–1973)Swiss physiologist
Moses Hess (1812–1875)German philosopher
Germain Henri Hess (1802–1850)Swiss chemist
Katrin Heß (born 1985)German actress
Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969)American geologist
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943)biologist

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

Surnames like Hess

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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.