- 1,001
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Hector Cruz
Meaning & Origins
Name borne in classical legend by the Trojan champion who was killed by the Greek Achilles. His name (Greek Hektōr) is probably an agent derivative of Greek ekhein ‘to restrain’. It was never popular in England, but there are occasional examples from the Middle Ages. In Scotland it was used as a classicized form of the Gaelic personal name Eachann, which is composed of each ‘horse’ + donn ‘brown’. It has been moderately popular in the United States since the 1940s.
| 426th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Spanish and Portuguese: from a common and widespread religious Christian personal name from cruz ‘cross’ (Latin crux), or a habitational name from any of numerous places named Cruz or La Cruz, from this word.
| 95th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Hecter, Hectar, Hectore, Hectro, Hectoria, Hester, Hectoer, Hectory, Hectir, Hectora
Cross, Cruse, Cress, Criss, Cruze, Cruzado, Cruzan, Crase, Croskey, Crose
Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
