Herfurth
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1 . German: metonymic occupational name for a soldier, from Middle High German hervart ‘campaign’, ‘military expedition’ (from Old High German heri ‘army’ -i- vart ‘journey’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɛɐfʊɐt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Herfurth is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
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(measured from records)
- Old High Germanheri(measured from records)
- Herfordin(measured from records)
1 . German: metonymic occupational name for a soldier, from Middle High German hervart ‘campaign’, ‘military expedition’ (from Old High German heri ‘army’ -i- vart ‘journey’). 2. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from Herford in Westphalia or Herfurth near Regensburg, or a topographic name from herfurt ‘ford suitable for the passage of an army’.
Sources 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)
- Paul Herfurthb. 1855DEGerman politician and publisher (1855–1937)
- Curt Herfurthb. 1880DEGerman architect (1880–1942)
- Otto Herfurthb. 1893DEGerman General and Knight's Cross recipients (1893-1944)
- Klaus Herfurthb. 1917DEGerman publisher
- Günter Herfurthb. 1922DEDr. rer. nat. Universität Leipzig 1955
- Egbert Herfurthb. 1944DEGerman graphic designer and painter
- Christian Herfurthb. 1972DEGerman politician
- Cathrin Herfurthb. 1972DEGerman association football player
- Karoline Herfurthb. 1984DEGerman actress
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 318 | #59,453 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 317 | #63,068 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 292 | #71,896 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 23 | #43,788 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 20 | #36,564 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,765 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #50,574 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,530 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #145,712 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #262,227 |
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 Herfurth come from?
- 1 . German: metonymic occupational name for a soldier, from Middle High German hervart ‘campaign’, ‘military expedition’ (from Old High German heri ‘army’ -i- vart ‘journey’). 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Herfurth?
- A machine transcription gives /hɛɐfʊɐt/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Herfurth mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1 . German: metonymic occupational name for a soldier, from Middle High German hervart ‘campaign’, ‘military expedition’ (from Old High German heri ‘army’ -i- vart ‘journey’).
- In which country does Herfurth have the most bearers?
- Herfurth is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herfurthThe 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
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Herfurth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.