Hërz

surname · Latin script

Hërz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Hertz.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 50K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 196K
  • ARArgentina1 in 203K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,612 people, 2010

Record sources
9 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: reference-verified

1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Herz in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

variant spelling of Hertz.

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hërz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Hërz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,6121 in 206K1.6KHerz9
AR Argentina2241 in 203K224——
CH Switzerland1681 in 50K168—1
BR Brazil1511 in 1.4M151——
PL Poland861 in 445K49——
CZ Czechia441 in 243K44——
CR Costa Rica261 in 196K26——

1,612 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Hërz is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States

    Also written Herz, Herž

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hërz under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hërz mean, and where does it come from?
variant spelling of Hertz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
In which country does Hërz have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Hërz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herz.
Where is Hërz most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hërz is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hërz?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,612 people named Hërz in 2010, about 1 in 206 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Hërz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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