Frequency: (219)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
South German and Swiss German: habitational name from any of the various places in Germany called Heideck or from Heidegg near Zurich. All of them get their names from Middle High German heide ‘heath’ + egge, ecke ‘corner’ (see Eck).
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