Hermann

At the 2020 census, 8,394 Americans bore the surname Hermann — 4,103rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 35,600.

By the numbers

People: 8,394
Rank: 4,103rd
How common: 1 in 35,600
Per 100,000: 2.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hermann

Johann Hermann (1738–1800)French physician, zoologist and botanist
Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871)German nobleman, landscape artist and travel writer
Irm Hermann (1942–2020)German actress
Günter Hermann (born 1960)German footballer
Judith Hermann (born 1970)German writer
Grete Hermann (1901–1984)German mathematician
Jakob Hermann (1678–1733)mathematician from Basel
Heinz Hermann (born 1958)Swiss association football player

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

Surnames like Hermann

Also a first name

Hermann has been given to 731 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1916. 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.