Herms

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Herms is a surname, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Hermann (see Herman).

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 46K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 725K
  • AIAnguilla1 in 74K

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

≈2.6K ◐

across 15 countries

Sources
86 ●

6.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 46K ◐

Germany

Meaning & origin●

patronymic from a short form of the personal name Hermann (see Herman).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Herms is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈1.7K2.3K rec.1 in 46K—Herms49
US United States≈4593.7K rec.1 in 725K413Herms86
NL Netherlands≈199134 rec.1 in 87K205Herms15
GB United Kingdom≈41120 rec.1 in 1.6M—Herms17
CA Canada≈2451 rec.1 in 1.6M—Herms6
ZA South Africa≈2212 rec.1 in 2.5M—Herms3
AT Austria≈1814 rec.1 in 495K—Herms3
AU Australia≈1748 rec.1 in 1.5M—Herms9
CH Switzerland≈137 rec.1 in 654K13Herms6
IT Italy≈139 rec.1 in 4.8M—Herms5
PL Poland≈521 rec.1 in 7.9M9Herms1
IE Ireland≈35 rec.1 in 1.8M—Herms3

Roughly 1.7K people in Germany bear this name (about 1 in 46K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English4K49%
  • German2.3K28%
  • Spanish95112%
  • Western Frisian2053%
  • Catalan1432%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,98149%
German2,29128%
Spanish95112%
Western Frisian2053%
Catalan1432%

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

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Ernst Herms, b. 1858Hänse Herms, b. 1898George Herms, b. 1935Eilert Herms, b. 1940Nandu Jubany, b. 1971Bernie Herms, b. 1972Ralf Herms, b. 1973René Herms, b. 1982Dave Herms, b. 1999

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 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Herms
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020413#53,969
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010413#50,564
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000406#48,776
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007205#10,162
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—143#21,248
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—143#21,212
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—36—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—29#152,390
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202413#50,156
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—12#35,521
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20269—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—9#141,818

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-06 data build · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Herms?
We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Herms (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Herms have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.7 thousand people bear Herms in Germany, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled herms.
Where is Herms most common?
Herms is densest in Germany, where we estimate about 1 in 46 thousand people carry it.
What does the name Herms mean?
Recorded meaning: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Hermann (see Herman).
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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, “Herms”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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