The HERRING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	37,353	841	0.014	138
United States (1880 census)	8,022	750	0.016	160
Change since 1880	+29331	-91	-0.002	-22
Other Countries
Australia	882	1861	0.005	54
United Kingdom	3,292	1896	0.007	72

Top States for HERRING by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Carolina	3,783	293	0.047	470
Texas	3,699	722	0.018	177
Florida	3,121	661	0.020	195
Georgia	2,222	486	0.027	271
Alabama	2,085	340	0.047	469
Top States for HERRING by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,490	290	0.052	524
North Carolina	3,783	293	0.047	470
Alabama	2,085	340	0.047	469
South Carolina	1,456	453	0.036	363
Arkansas	804	436	0.030	301

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called HERRING live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called HERRING represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called HERRING in North Carolina than any other state, but you are more likely to find a HERRING by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of HERRING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HERRING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the HERRING surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of HERRING in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	560	1.5
Mixed Race	527	1.41
Asian/Pacific	146	0.39
Native American/Alaskan	146	0.39
White (Caucasian)	27,918	74.74
Black/African American	8,057	21.57

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the HERRING surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to HERRING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERRING.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.