Hersh
3,358 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hersh in the 2020 census, making it the 9,296th most common in the country. That is about one person in 89,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 3,358
- Rank
- 9,296th
- How common
- 1 in 89,000
- Per 100,000
- 1.1
Where the name comes from
from Middle High German hirz, from Old High German hiruz, from Proto-West Germanic *herut, from Proto-Germanic *herutaz. Compare hart.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Hersh described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Hersh
- Seymour Hersh (born 1937)American investigative journalist
- Kristin Hersh (born 1966)American musician
- Reuben Hersh (1927–2020)American mathematician
People named Hersh with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Hersh
Also a first name
Hersh has been given to 884 American babies as a first name since 1959, peaking in 2024. 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.