Herdt
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Herdt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname from Middle High German hert(e) ‘hard’, ‘coarse’, ‘crude’; perhaps occasionally also from a house name, from herde ‘stove’.
- UYUruguay1 in 45K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 221K
- BRBrazil1 in 276K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
768 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
nickname from Middle High German hert(e) ‘hard’, ‘coarse’, ‘crude’; perhaps occasionally also from a house name, from herde ‘stove’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Herdt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 768 | 1 in 276K | 768 | — | — |
| US United States | 662 | 1 in 502K | 715 | Herdt | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 206 | 1 in 221K | 206 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 75 | 1 in 45K | 75 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 18 | 1 in 2.1M | 11 | Herdt | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 13 | 1 in 646K | 13 | — | — |
768 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Herdt is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a personal name, Herto, a short form of any of the Germanic compound names beginning with hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Wohl zu mhd. herte 'hart, grob' oder als Wohnstättenname zu mhd. hert 'Herd, Haus, Wohnung; Vogelherd'. 1020 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Herdtb. 1790CHSwiss/German painter (1790–1842)
- James L. Herdtb. 1947US9th MCPON of the US Navy
- Gilbert Herdtb. 1949USAmerican anthropologist (born 1949)
- Waldemar Herdtb. 1962DEGerman politician (AfD) of Kazakhstani origin
- Stefan HerdtGerman army officer
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 768 | #11,646 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 715 | #30,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 695 | #34,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 662 | #34,272 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 206 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 75 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 13 | #50,156 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #126,532 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #164,294 |
| 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
- 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 Herdt mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from Middle High German hert(e) ‘hard’, ‘coarse’, ‘crude’; perhaps occasionally also from a house name, from herde ‘stove’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Herdt have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 768 people named Herdt, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Herdt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Herdt is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Herdt?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 768 people named Herdt, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herdtThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Herdt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.