About the Hechter Surname

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What Hechter means

Families named Hechter share their surname's story with Hecht, of which it is a variant. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “pike”.

The ending -er in Hechter marks an German derivative of the root behind Hecht. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. 125 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Hechter name at birth. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

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