Herold

Herold is the 6,177th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,315 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 56,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,315
Rank: 6,177th
How common: 1 in 56,200
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.4%
Black, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Herold

Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833)French composer
Jens-Peter Herold (born 1965)German middle-distance runner
Willi Herold (1925–1946)German military personnel and chimney sweep
David Herold (1842–1865)Conspirator
Don Herold (1889–1966)cartoonist
Deborah Herold (born 1995)Indian cyclist

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

Surnames like Herold

Also a first name

Herold has been given to 618 American babies as a first name since 1894, peaking in 1923. 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.