Herrmann

surname · German · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Herrmann is a surname, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Indonesia it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Very common as Christian name, also existing as a Surname.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 308◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 445
  • ARArgentina1 in 582

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈136K ●

across 10 countries

#589 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
434 ●

3.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 948 ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

GermanLatin · Spanish●2.1M records
ГерманCyrillic · Russian●396K records
ᲒერმანGeorgian · Georgian●258 records
เฮอร์แมนThai · Thai●139 records
ԳերմանArmenian · Armenian●1 records
헤르만Hangul · Korean●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled German in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, VE Venezuela and 7 more, Herman in US United States, ID Indonesia, NL Netherlands and 5 more, Герман in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, FI Finland and 2 more and Hermann in DE Germany, AT Austria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Very common as Christian name, also existing as a Surname. All over Baden.

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Herrmann is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1461,174,156593K rec.—1.6KGerman151
DE Germany#85384,523395K rec.—2Hermann229
RU Russia#144381,493157K rec.—#69Герман165
MX Mexico#235208,906193K rec.—669German206
ID Indonesia#39204,100111 rec.—102KHerman12
VE Venezuela#131188,83068K rec.——German80
PE Peru#187177,119154K rec.——German90
CL Chile#17794,6927.1K rec.—35German130
CO Colombia#12881,36234K rec.—90German168
BE Belgium#50846,14610K rec.—13KHermans113
US United States#43442,6821.5M rec.1 in 7.8K43KHerman434
GB United Kingdom#57334,51561K rec.——Herman117

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German133K44%
  • English108K36%
  • French19K6%
  • Spanish9.6K3%
  • Portuguese6.8K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German132,50244%
English108,40236%
French19,3446%
Spanish9,6173%
Portuguese6,8092%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Herrmann is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname121K records spelled Herrmann2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Also written Herrman-N

62 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Herrmann is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, From Germanic personal name Hermann; plate shows main-stressed vowel shortening (Herr- vs Her-). Bearer count: 227 tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Patronym zu ahd. heri/hêr ‘Heer’ + man ‘Mann’; doppelte Konsonanz zeigt Kürze des vorangehenden Vokals. 7 Types/34178 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, zu ahd./as. heri 'Heer' + man 'Mann'; Rufname Hermann

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, Familienname mit -mann; genit. -manns belegt. Morphologisches Muster: -mann/-manns; hier besonders häufig. Bearer count: 18+33830 / 0+84.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, Deutscher Familienname; die Karte zeigt Kürzenanzeige im Haupttonvokalismus (Herrmann/Hermann). Bearer count: 34178.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020040060080019001920194019601980674 · 1951

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Herrmann in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
1891371
1901434
1911347
1921495
1931453
1941511
1951674
1961567
1971483
1981460
1991412

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Bernard Herrmann, b. 1911Joachim Herrmann, b. 1928Hans Herrmann, b. 1928Edward Herrmann, b. 1943Joachim Herrmann, b. 1956Mathias Herrmann, b. 1962Benjamin Herrmann, b. 1971Walter Herrmann, b. 1979Denise Herrmann-Wick, b. 1988Patrick Herrmann, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 39 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Herrmann
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201013K#2,723
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200013K#2,541
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202013K#2,754
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20242.9K#270
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.9K#5,112
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951674—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961567—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941511—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921495—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971483—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981460—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931453—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 84 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Herrmann?
We estimate roughly 136 thousand people bear Herrmann (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Herrmann have the most bearers?
Herrmann is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled german.
How common is Herrmann compared with other names?
In Argentina, Herrmann is the 146th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
What does the name Herrmann mean?
Recorded meaning: Very common as Christian name, also existing as a Surname.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Herrmann” — the 146th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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