Huck: Surname History and Family Crest

Huck is a French surname. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “descendant of Huc, a pet form of Hugo (spirit)”.

Arms associated with the name

Sharing the Huck name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname origin

Like many surnames, it grew out of a personal name.

The 2010 census count for Huck in the United States was 4,421, good for rank 7,525. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames. 3,021 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Huck name at birth. Births ran at 158 in 1891–1900 and 258 in 1991–2000. Get the complete Huck report, with a museum-style coat of arms.