Herr

At the 2020 census, 11,822 Americans bore the surname Herr — 2,974th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,300.

By the numbers

People: 11,822
Rank: 2,974th
How common: 1 in 25,300
Per 100,000: 4.0

Where the name comes from

As a title and German and Jewish surname (also found in Hungary and France), from the noun Herr (“gentleman, sir”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 8.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Herr

Michael Herr (1940–2016)American war correspondent, screenwriter
Dominique Herr (born 1965)Swiss footballer
Traugott Herr (1890–1976)German general
Hugh Herr (born 1964)American bioengineer
Trude Herr (1927–1991)German actress and singer
Alexander Herr (born 1978)ski jumper

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

Surnames like Herr

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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.