The HEROLD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,715	5577	0.002	21
United States (1880 census)	1,139	4894	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+4576	-683	0	-2
Other Countries
Australia	117	12350	0.001	7
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for HEROLD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	502	5424	0.001	15
Ohio	436	3112	0.004	38
Florida	416	4687	0.003	26
New York	353	5311	0.002	19
Minnesota	339	1662	0.007	69
Top States for HEROLD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wyoming	36	1665	0.007	73
Minnesota	339	1662	0.007	69
Iowa	189	1901	0.006	65
Wisconsin	280	2446	0.005	52
North Dakota	32	3282	0.005	50

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

Classification and Origin of HEROLD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

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

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	111	1.94
Black/African American	97	1.7
Mixed Race	64	1.12
Asian/Pacific	32	0.56
Native American/Alaskan	15	0.26
White (Caucasian)	5,396	94.42

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

Similar names to HEROLD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as HEROLD.

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.