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    The surname Herrod

    A surname, carried by 1,992 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex H630

    Herrod: #14,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Herrod #14,866, 1,992 people Herrod: #14,866 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Herrod #14,866, 1,992 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Herrod is more common than 90.8% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,992 people named Herrod in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 154,993 Americans. That is up 8.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,834.

    #14,866
    rank among US surnames
    1,992
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +8.6%
    change since 2000 (was #14,831)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,862Werts1,993154,915
    #14,866Atlas1,992154,993
    #14,870Alvord1,991155,071

    Who is named Herrod

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    53% of people named Herrod identified as white (not Hispanic), 37% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 53%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 37%
    • Two or more races 3.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 3.7%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Herrod

    Herrod has the Soundex code H630, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H630.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Herrod?
    1,992 people in the United States had the surname Herrod in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 154,993 Americans. It ranked 14,866th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Herrod?
    In the 2010 Census, 53% of people named Herrod identified as white (not Hispanic), and 37% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Herrod getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,834 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,992 in 2010, up 8.6%.