Hershey

5,933 people in the United States were counted with the surname Hershey in the 2020 census, making it the 5,637th most common in the country. That is about one person in 50,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,933
Rank: 5,637th
How common: 1 in 50,400
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

From Hercé in Normandy. The villages are named after The Hershey Company, which is named after its founder, Milton S. Hershey.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Hershey

Alfred Hershey (1908–1997)American chemist
Barbara Hershey (born 1948)American actress
Milton S. Hershey (1857–1945)American businessman

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

Surnames like Hershey

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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.