Heßke Surname
Approximately 132 people bear this surname
Heßke Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 131 | 1:614,545 | 48,972 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
The alternate forms: Heke (2,219) are calculated separately.
Heßke Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Heßke Come From? nationality or country of origin
Heßke is found most in Germany. It can also appear in the variant forms: Heke. Click here for other potential spellings of Heßke.
How Common Is The Last Name Heßke? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 1,558,593rd most common surname worldwide It is held by approximately 1 in 55,208,681 people. The surname Heßke occurs mostly in Europe, where 100 percent of Heßke reside; 100 percent reside in Western Europe and 100 percent reside in Germanic Europe.
The surname Heßke is most commonly used in Germany, where it is borne by 131 people, or 1 in 614,545. In Germany Heßke is most numerous in: Lower Saxony, where 24 percent reside, Schleswig-Holstein, where 21 percent reside and North Rhine-Westphalia, where 17 percent reside. Besides Germany it is found in one country. It is also common in Switzerland, where 1 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Heßke
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