Herring

At the 2020 census, 35,941 Americans bore the surname Herring — 956th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,316.

By the numbers

People: 35,941
Rank: 956th
How common: 1 in 8,316
Per 100,000: 12.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 69.6%
Black, not Hispanic 22.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Herring

Conyers Herring (1914–2009)American physicist
Aggie Herring (1876–1939)actress
Edmund Herring (1892–1982)Australian Army general during World War II and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria

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

Surnames like Herring

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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.