Haring
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle Low German hdrinc ‘herring’, German Hering, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of herrings
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haring is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 22K
- USUnited States1 in 111K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Häring in DE Germany and Haering in CH Switzerland.
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)
from Middle Low German hdrinc ‘herring’, German Hering, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of herrings.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haring 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Haring | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Häring | 92 |
| US United States | — | 2,997 | 1 in 111K | 3K | Haring | 285 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,296 | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Haring | 57 |
| AT Austria | #561 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Haring | 66 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 702 | 1 in 12K | 702 | Haering | 33 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Haring | 2 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Haring is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
also from a personal name, a variant of Herring 3.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, present participle and gerund of hare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bar, herring (fish in Clupea)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Haringb. 1739USAmerican politician
- Keith Haringb. 1958USAmerican artist and social activist (1958-1990)
- Roswitha Haringb. 1960DEGerman writer
- Elisabeth Haringb. 1960ATAustrian zoologist
- Bas Haringb. 1968NLDutch philosopher (born 1968)
- Chris Haringb. 1970ATAustrian dancer
- Robin Haringb. 1982DEGerman epidemiologist, author and Professor of Public Health
- Florence Haringb. 1985FRFrench tennis player
- Peter Haringb. 1993ATAustrian footballer
- Filip Haringb. 2003SKSlovak chess player
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(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,207 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,100 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1.3K | #1,229 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Haring mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle Low German hdrinc ‘herring’, German Hering, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of herrings. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Haring have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Haring in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haring.
- How common is the name Haring?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,997 people named Haring in 2010, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Haring compared with other names?
- In Austria, Haring is the 561st most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haringThe 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, “Haring” — the 561st most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.