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hecht Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Dutch: from Middle High German hech(e)t, Middle Dutch heect, hecht ‘pike’, generally a nickname for a rapacious and greedy person. In some instances it may have been a metonymic occupational name for a fisher and in others it may be a habitational name from a house distinguished by a sign depicting this fish.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Hecht or Yiddish hekht ‘pike’, one of the many Ashkenazic ornamental names taken from vocabulary words denoting wildlife.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hecht Families in the US in 1920
Number of hecht families
 174-345
 59-173		 1-58
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