The HERD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,287	6000	0.002	20
United States (1880 census)	1,791	3300	0.004	36
Change since 1880	+3496	-2700	-0.002	-16
Other Countries
Australia	622	2594	0.004	38
United Kingdom	2,494	2451	0.005	54

Top States for HERD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	588	4706	0.003	28
California	535	6753	0.002	16
Oklahoma	307	2030	0.009	89
Missouri	292	3364	0.005	52
Tennessee	244	3893	0.004	43
Top States for HERD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Oklahoma	307	2030	0.009	89
Kansas	145	2985	0.005	54
Missouri	292	3364	0.005	52
Utah	106	3398	0.005	47
Wyoming	23	3967	0.005	47

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

Classification and Origin of HERD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Scotland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the HERD 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 HERD 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 HERD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	102	1.93
White (Hispanic)	89	1.68
Native American/Alaskan	47	0.89
Asian/Pacific	27	0.51
White (Caucasian)	4,015	75.94
Black/African American	1,007	19.05

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

Similar names to HERD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERD.

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.