Hesse

5,732 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hesse in the 2020 census, making it the 5,814th most common in the country. That is about one person in 52,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,732
Rank: 5,814th
How common: 1 in 52,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

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 Hesse described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Hesse

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter
Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (1872–1918)Empress consort of Russia
Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (1868–1940)German prince
Eva Hesse (1936–1970)German-born American sculptor and textile artist
Otto Hesse (1811–1874)German mathematician (*1811 – †1874)
Louis VI of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630–1678)Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
Louis V, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1577–1626)German nobleman
Fanny Hesse (1850–1934)German biologist

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

Surnames like Hesse

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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.