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The HERMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 42,091 746 0.016 156
United States (1880 census) 8,115 742 0.016 162
Change since 1880 +33976 -4 0 -6
Other Countries
Australia 598 2705 0.004 37
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for HERMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 3,568 422 0.019 188
Pennsylvania 3,494 304 0.028 285
California 3,427 917 0.010 101
Florida 2,844 685 0.018 178
Ohio 2,259 532 0.020 199
Top States for HERMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 326 131 0.051 508
South Dakota 362 122 0.048 480
Montana 345 224 0.038 382
Wisconsin 1,572 284 0.029 293
Pennsylvania 3,494 304 0.028 285

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

Classification and Origin of HERMAN

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 HERMAN 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 HERMAN 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 HERMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 825 1.96
Mixed Race 463 1.1
Native American/Alaskan 396 0.94
Asian/Pacific 269 0.64
White (Caucasian) 38,871 92.35
Black/African American 1,267 3.01

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

Meaning of HERMAN in historical publications

(origin: Sax.) From Here, an army, and man. A man of the army; a soldier. Here and Hare signify both an army and lord.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


Similar names to HERMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HERMAN.

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 HERMAN

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