Hegge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, either from Old Norse Heggvin from heggr ‘bird cherry (tree)’ -i- vin ‘meadow’, or from hegg (indefinite plural of heggr) alone
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɛɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hegge is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ILIsrael
- USUnited States
- NONorway
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, either from Old Norse Heggvin from heggr ‘bird cherry (tree)’ -i- vin ‘meadow’, or from hegg (indefinite plural of heggr) alone.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hegge is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, from a short form of a Germanic personal name with the first element agi ‘edge’, ‘blade’ (see, e.g., Egbert).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, Variant spelling of Swedish Hagge (see Hagg).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Dutch, a hamlet in Beekdaelen, Limburg, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A hedge; a plant grown as a boundary.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a hectogram (usually of cannabis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jacob Heggeb. 1450DEGerman theologian
- Fridtjov Heggeb. 1868NONorwegian politician, lawyer and judge
- Ole Heggeb. 1898NOcross-country skier (1898-1994)
- Hjalmar Heggeb. 1920NONorwegian philosopher
- Per Egil Heggeb. 1940NONorwegian journalist and editor (1940–2023)
- Øystein Heggeb. 1961NONorwegian musician
- Christoph Heggeb. 1962DEGerman priest and theologian
- Inger Lise Heggeb. 1965NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Bjørn Marius Heggeb. 1987NONorwegian musician
- Noah Heggeb. 1999DEGerman canoeist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hegge mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, either from Old Norse Heggvin from heggr ‘bird cherry (tree)’ -i- vin ‘meadow’, or from hegg (indefinite plural of heggr) alone. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hegge?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɛɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hegge have the most bearers?
- Hegge is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hegge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.