Her
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Her is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 93rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 22K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 123K
- CACanada≈1 in 87K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
15,089 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Her is read(measured from records)
Her is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English63%
Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
igié; for her, ngi-we
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
- Spanish12%
obsolete spelling of hacer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Her in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Her 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 | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 56 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Her | 57 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Her | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Her | 56 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Her | 30 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Her | 24 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #93 | — | — | — | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Her is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Hindi, career as a civil engineer has followed the boom and bust cycles of
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In Hindi, website is <http://clearthespace.com>
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
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)
- Heo Hwang-okb. 33KRnot in their usual nameQueen of Gaya
- Heo Junb. 1546not in their usual nameKorean court physician (1539 – 1615 )
- Ho Jong-sukb. 1902KPnot in their usual nameindependence activist and writer, Journalist, Communism activist, feminist, sex positive activists (1902-1991)
- Huh Joon-hob. 1964KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor and singer
- Heo Sung-taeb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, born 1977
- June Huhb. 1983USnot in their usual nameKorean-American mathematician
- Heo Ga-yoonb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Heo Young-jib. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Huh Yun-jinb. 2001USnot in their usual nameSouth Korean-American singer-songwriter (born 2001)
- Huh Mimib. 2002JPnot in their usual nameKorean judoka
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,404 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,159 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 37 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Her come from?
- Americanized spelling of German Eiler. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Her?
- A machine transcription gives /hɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Her mean?
- In English, Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
- In which country does Her have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Her, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled her.
- Where is Her most common?
- Her is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 22 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Her?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,089 people named Her in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Her compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Her is the 93rd most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herThe 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, “Her” — the 93rd most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.