Name

Name HEX

Between 1930 and 2022 there were 1 birth of Hex in the countries below, which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name Hex per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

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En Français

Prénom Hex
In Italiano

Nome Hex

Information about the first name Hex

The first name Hex has been assigned to:

100.00% to boys
0.00% to girls

The country where the first name Hex is the most common is:

Australia

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 3 letters including 1 vowel and 2 consonants

Hex in Japanese ^*

Romaji	hekkusu
Katakana	ヘックス
Hiragana	へっくす
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Hex in sign language

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Hex in binary language

01101000 01100101 01111000

Origin and meaning of name Hex

English

Etymology

First attested about 1830, from Pennsylvania German hexe (“to practice witchcraft”), from German hexen (compare Hexe (“witch”)). The noun appeared later, in the 1850s. Cognate to Norwegian Bokmål heks (“witch”) and Dutch heks (“witch”), Dutch beheksen (“to bewitch”), Old English hægtesse (“witch, hag”). Doublet of hag.

Etymology

Short for hexadecimal.

Etymology

Short for hexagon.

Etymology (Noun)

hex (plural hexes)
An evil spell or curse.
A witch.
(rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).

Etymology (Verb)

hex (third-person singular simple present hexes, present participle hexing, simple past and past participle hexed)
(transitive) To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch.

Etymology (Noun)

hex (uncountable)
(computing, informal) Clipping of hexadecimal.

Etymology (Noun)

hex (plural hexes)
A hexagonal space on a game board.
(climbing) a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.

Etymology (See also)