Herford
loc · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Herfurth
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Herford is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- PLPoland
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle High Germanhervart(inferred from the name graph)via Herfurth
- Old High Germanheri(inferred from the name graph)via Herfurth
- Herfordin(inferred from the name graph)via Herfurth
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
variant of Herfurth.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)- Oliver Herfordb. 1863GBAmerican writer and illustrator (1863-1935)
- Beatrice Herfordb. 1868USAmerican actress (1868-1952)
- Julius Herfordb. 1901DEGerman-American pianist, choral conductor, and pedagogue (1901–1981)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Herford mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Herfurth. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Herford have the most bearers?
- Herford is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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About this data
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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, “Herford”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.