How common is the surname Hirschman?

1,487 people in the United States had the surname Hirschman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,630 Americans. It ranked 18,550th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Hirschman?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hirschman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Hirschman?

Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann, Banker, General Secretary of FIFA (1877-1951), followed by Jack Hirschman.

Where is the surname Hirschman most common?

Wikidata records people named Hirschman in Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United States.

Is the surname Hirschman getting more or less common?

More common. 1,486 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,487 in 2010, up 0.1%.

The surname Hirschman

A German surname, carried by 1,487 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex H625

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Hirschman is more common than 88.6% of them.

Origin

German origin

Variant of Hirschmann.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,487 people named Hirschman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 207,630 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,486.

#18,550

rank among US surnames

1,487

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+0.1%

change since 2000 (was #17,483)

Who is named Hirschman

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

93% of people named Hirschman identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.7%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Hirschmans

2 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann
Banker, General Secretary of FIFA (1877-1951)
Jack Hirschman
American writer, 1933–2021

Notable Hirschmans come mostly from Kingdom of the Netherlands (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Hirschman

Hirschman has the Soundex code H625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H625.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Hirschman come from?: Variant of Hirschmann.
How common is the surname Hirschman?: 1,487 people in the United States had the surname Hirschman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 207,630 Americans. It ranked 18,550th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Hirschman?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Hirschman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Hirschman?: Carl Anton Wilhelm Hirschmann, Banker, General Secretary of FIFA (1877-1951), followed by Jack Hirschman.
Where is the surname Hirschman most common?: Wikidata records people named Hirschman in Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United States.
Is the surname Hirschman getting more or less common?: More common. 1,486 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,487 in 2010, up 0.1%.