Herbst

8,002 people in the United States were counted with the surname Herbst in the 2020 census, making it the 4,290th most common in the country. That is about one person in 37,400.

By the numbers

People: 8,002
Rank: 4,290th
How common: 1 in 37,400
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Borrowed from German Herbst.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.7%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Herbst

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743–1807)German naturalist and entomologist
Reinfried Herbst (born 1978)Austrian Alpine skier
Christoph Maria Herbst (born 1966)German comedian and actor
Eduard Herbst (1820–1892)Czech member of Czech council
Christine Herbst (born 1957)East German swimmer
Rebecca Herbst (born 1977)American actress

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

Surnames like Herbst

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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.