The surname Herber
A surname, carried by 1,490 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H616
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,490 people named Herber in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 207,212 Americans. That is down 21% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,878.
#18,523
rank among US surnames
1,490
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-20.7%
change since 2000 (was #14,550)
Who is named Herber
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
89% of people named Herber identified as white (not Hispanic), 7.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 89%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.9%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
- Two or more races 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Herber has the Soundex code H616, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H616.
Questions
- How common is the surname Herber?
- 1,490 people in the United States had the surname Herber in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,212 Americans. It ranked 18,523rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Herber?
- In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Herber identified as white (not Hispanic), and 7.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Herber getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,878 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,490 in 2010, down 21%.