Herald

Herald is the 8,215th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,860 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 77,400.

By the numbers

People: 3,860
Rank: 8,215th
How common: 1 in 77,400
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Herald described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Herald

William Herald (1900–1976)Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist

People named Herald with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Herald

Also a first name

Herald has been given to 990 American babies as a first name since 1900, peaking in 1926. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.