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The HERDMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,576 16714 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 585 8506 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +991 -8208 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 129 11326 0.001 8
United Kingdom 1,193 4540 0.003 26
Top States for HERDMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Ohio 248 5269 0.002 22
West Virginia 140 1732 0.008 77
New York 122 14517 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 105 13187 0.001 9
California 100 21745 0.000 3
Top States for HERDMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 140 1732 0.008 77
Ohio 248 5269 0.002 22
Kansas 43 7240 0.002 16
Vermont 9 8850 0.001 15
Missouri 63 10175 0.001 11

Notes

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

Classification and Origin of HERDMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

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

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 36 2.28
Mixed Race 13 0.82
White (Caucasian) 1,519 96.38
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of HERDMAN in historical publications

HERDMAN. A-Sax. hirdman, an attendant.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to HERDMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERDMAN.

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.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for HERDMAN

The following words are slight variants of HERDMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.