Herich
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Wohl ostmd. Variante zu Hering; teils auch Patronym zu ahd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Herich is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 204K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 315K
- ARArgentina1 in 875K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 204K (inferred from the name graph)
188 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Wohl ostmd. Variante zu Hering; teils auch Patronym zu ahd. heri-rīhhi 'Heer, Herrschaft'. Bearer count: 116.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Herich 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.
188 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 99 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 99 | #30,164 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 89 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 89 | #32,432 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 52 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 34 | #38,237 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 34 | #12,641 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #109,756 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Herich mean?
- Recorded meaning: Wohl ostmd. Variante zu Hering; teils auch Patronym zu ahd.
- In which country does Herich have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 188 people named Herich, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Herich most common?
- Herich is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 204 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Herich?
- In Poland, the national register counted 188 people named Herich in 2026, about 1 in 204 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herichThe 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, “Herich”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.