The HERBST surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	8,093	4028	0.003	30
United States (1880 census)	1,253	4508	0.003	25
Change since 1880	+6840	+480	0	+5
Other Countries
Australia	167	8882	0.001	10
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HERBST by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	827	2140	0.004	44
Wisconsin	737	714	0.014	137
California	551	4975	0.002	16
Pennsylvania	520	2816	0.004	42
Ohio	441	3047	0.004	39
Top States for HERBST by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	737	714	0.014	137
Wyoming	50	1124	0.010	101
Idaho	115	1465	0.009	89
Minnesota	437	1207	0.009	89
Iowa	211	1633	0.007	72

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

Classification and Origin of HERBST

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HERBST 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.

Ethnic distribution of HERBST in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	92	1.14
Mixed Race	64	0.79
Asian/Pacific	34	0.42
Native American/Alaskan	17	0.21
Black/African American	14	0.17
White (Caucasian)	7,872	97.27

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

Similar names to HERBST

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERBST.

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.