Hacke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic personal name Hago, a short form of various Germanic personal names formed with hag ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hacke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 53K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- MLMali≈1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the Germanic personal name Hago, a short form of various Germanic personal names formed with hag ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hacke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 53K | listed | Hacke | 80 |
| ML Mali | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Hacke | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 407 | 1 in 520K | 407 | — | — |
| US United States | 267 | 1 in 1.2M | 298 | Hacke | 145 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 361K | — | Hacke | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 90 | 1 in 65K | 90 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hacke is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, metonymic occupational name from German Hacke ‘axe’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, heel (of the foot or shoe)
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)- Georg Hacciusb. 1626DEnot in their usual nameGerman theologian (1626-1684)
- Fritz Hackeb. 1842DEGerman politician, lawyer and notary (1842-1922)
- Rudolf Hackeb. 1881DEGerman illustrator and painter (1881-1953)
- Christian Hackeb. 1943DEGerman historian of modern age and political scientist
- Werner Hackeb. 1948DEProfessor of Neurology
- Horst Hackeb. 1949DEGerman politician
- Axel Hackeb. 1956DEGerman journalist and author
- Alexander Hackeb. 1965DEGerman musician, producer, writer & film-maker
- Jens Hackeb. 1973DEGerman political scientist
- Marie Hackeb. 1989DEGerman film actor and stage actor
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 407 | #20,435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 298 | #70,715 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 274 | #67,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 267 | #72,771 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 90 | #6,092 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Hacke mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic personal name Hago, a short form of various Germanic personal names formed with hag ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hacke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hacke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Hacke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hacke.
- How common is the name Hacke?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 407 people named Hacke, about 1 in 520 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hackeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hacke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.