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Heck Name Meaning
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.German: topographic name
from Middle High German hecke, hegge ‘hedge’. This name
is common in southern Germany and the Rhineland.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.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. DEB.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Heck
Name Distribution of Heck Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Heck families
 200 - 398  67 - 199 |
 1 - 66  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Heck families
|
23 - 44 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Heck families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Heck Family Origin
Heck Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Heck
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Heck Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Heck census records
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