Hirsch

At the 2020 census, 16,386 Americans bore the surname Hirsch — 2,159th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,200.

By the numbers

People: 16,386
Rank: 2,159th
How common: 1 in 18,200
Per 100,000: 5.5

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Hirsch

Emile Hirsch (born 1985)American actor
Judd Hirsch (born 1935)American actor
Alex Hirsch (born 1985)American voice actor, animator, writer, storyboard artist, and producer
Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896)German financier and philanthropist
Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888)Jewish theologian, Germany 19th century
Robert Hirsch (1925–2017)French actor
Peter Hirsch (1925–2025)British metallurgist
Jorge E. Hirsch (born 1953)Argentine American physics academic

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

Surnames like Hirsch

Hirst
Hirt

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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.