Last name: HESS
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Last name frequency
HESS : This last name is indexed 355,938 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
HESS : 1: German Dutch Danish and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from the territory of Hesse (see Hessen 1).2: South German: from a short form of the personal name Matthäus (see Matthew).3: German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hesso a derivative of a compound name formed with hadu ‘strife’ as the first element or from a pet form of Herman or Hendrik (see Henry 1).
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- Denmark (4,189)
- Romania (3,301)
- Hungary (3,031)
- United Kingdom (2,934)
- Norway (2,775)
- Luxembourg (1,485)
- Canada (1,305)
- Unknown country (1,208)
- Russian Federation (1,151)
- Belgium (843)
- Latvia (761)
- Sweden (695)
Available collections for this name
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(186,254) - Family Trees
(106,482) - Newspapers
(42,862) - Books
(16,950) - Other
(1,444) - Cemeteries
(964) - Magazines
(436) - Obituaries
(319) - Memorials
(193) - Coats of Arms
(32) - Memory of places
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