Hęr
surname · Latin script
Hęr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 15,089 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 93rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Americanized spelling of German Eiler. Hęr is also written הער in Hebrew.
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 2.4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 22K
- FRFrance≈1 in 79K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
15,089 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Hęr in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Her in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more.
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)Americanized spelling of German Eiler. lies (971) English (mainly Somerset and Gloucestershire): topographic name from Anglo-Norman French isle ‘island’ (Latin insula) or a habitational name from a place in England or northern France named with this element.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hęr is found
(measured from records)Hęr 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 15,089 | 1 in 22K | 17K | Her | 303 |
| FR France | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 56 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Her | 57 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Her | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Her | 56 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Her | 30 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #93 | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Her | 1 |
15,089 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 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hęr mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of German Eiler. Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hęr?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Hęr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled her. After it come France, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hęr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,089 people named Hęr in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Hęr compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Hęr is the 93rd most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C4%99rThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Hęr” — ranked 2062nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.