The surname Herndon
A place surname, carried by 19,183 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex H653
Origin
Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.
Herndon is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 19,183 people named Herndon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 16,095 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 18,838.
Who is named Herndon
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
78% of people named Herndon identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 78%
- Black (not Hispanic) 16%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
- Two or more races 2.1%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Variant spellings
- Hernton
Herndon has the Soundex code H653, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H653.
Questions
- Where does the surname Herndon come from?
- Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.
- How common is the surname Herndon?
- 19,183 people in the United States had the surname Herndon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 16,095 Americans. It ranked 1,871st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Herndon?
- In the 2010 Census, 78% of people named Herndon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Herndon?
- Herndon is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
- Is the surname Herndon getting more or less common?
- More common. 18,838 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 19,183 in 2010, up 1.8%.
- What are other spellings of Herndon?
- Hernton.