Hering

Hering is the 11,346th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,658 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 112,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,658
Rank: 11,346th
How common: 1 in 112,000
Per 100,000: 0.89

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Hering, from Middle High German hærinc, both meaning herring.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hering

Ewald Hering (1834–1918)German physiologist
Sabrina Hering (born 1992)German canoer
Gottlieb Hering (1887–1945)SS officer, second commandant of Bełżec extermination camp
Constantine Hering (1800–1880)Homeopathic physician and naturalist

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

Surnames like Hering

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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.