Hecht Family History
- Hecht Name Meaning
- 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. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Hecht or Yiddish hekht ‘pike’, one of the many Ashkenazic ornamental names taken from vocabulary words denoting wildlife.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 276,155 Historical Documents with Hecht on Ancestry
- 162,348 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 34,370 Census and Voter Lists
- 14,861 Military Records
- 17,786 Immigration Records
- 46,790 Member Trees
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Number of Hecht families
 15 - 28  6 - 14 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hecht census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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