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heck Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a gate or ‘hatch’ (especially one leading into a forest), northern Middle English heck (Old English hæcc), or a habitational name from Great Heck in North Yorkshire, which is named with this word. Compare Hatch.
  2. German: topographic name from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This name is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland.
  3. Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Hec(q), a topographic name from Old French hec ‘gate’, ‘barrier’, ‘fence’ (compare 1), or a habitational name from a place named with this word.
  4. Shortened form of the Dutch surname van (den) Hecke, a habitational name from any of several places called ten Hekke in the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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heck Family Facts

Distribution of heck Families in the US in 1920
Number of heck families
 200-398
 67-199		 1-66
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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