Herner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from Heme in Westphalia
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈhɝnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Herner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 107K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 144K
- PLPoland1 in 275K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
526 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name for someone from Heme in Westphalia. Hernon ^227) Irish: 1. Anglicized form of Gaelic O hlarnain, 6 hEarnain, ‘descendant of lamdn, Eamdn', possibly from iam ‘iron’. 2. reduced form of Heffernan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Herner 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.
526 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Diego Hernerb. 1983ARArgentinian footballer
- Olivér Hernerb. 1996HUHungarian ice hockey player
- Doug HernerUSbasketball 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 585 | #36,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 534 | #43,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 526 | #41,359 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 424 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 80 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 80 | #35,682 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 71 | #9,481 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 59 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 59 | #44,184 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #139,729 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 20 | #23,605 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15 | #26,455 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Herner come from?
- habitational name for someone from Heme in Westphalia. Hernon ^227) Irish: 1. Anglicized form of Gaelic O hlarnain, 6 hEarnain, ‘descendant of lamdn, Eamdn', possibly from iam ‘iron’. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Herner?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɝnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Herner mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from Heme in Westphalia.
- In which country does Herner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 526 people named Herner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herner.
- Where is Herner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Herner is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 107 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Herner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 526 people named Herner in 2010, about 1 in 632 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/hernerThe 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, “Herner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.