Herndon
loc · Latin script
Meaning: probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Herndon is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Russia.
- RURussia
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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Херндон in RU Russia.
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)
probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Herndon counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | — | Херндон | 4 |
| US United States | — | 19K | — | 17 |
| PL Poland | — | 5 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1 | — | — |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- William Lewis Herndonb. 1813USAmerican explorer (1813–1857)
- William Herndonb. 1818USAmerican lawyer and politician (1818–1891)
- Thomas H. Herndonb. 1828USAmerican politician (1828–1883)
- Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthurb. 1837USwife of U.S. president Chester A. Arthur (1837–1880)
- Johnny Mercerb. 1909USnot in their usual nameAmerican lyricist, songwriter, singer and record executive (1909–1976)
- Angelo Herndonb. 1913USAfrican American labor organizer (1913-1997)
- Holly Herndonb. 1980USAmerican composer and musician (born 1980)
- David Herndonb. 1985USAmerican baseball player
- Alan Herndonb. 1994USAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- 2hollisb. 2004USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and singer
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 14 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,871 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 19K | #1,742 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,920 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #196,397 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,560 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #223,418 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #19,498 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #26,063 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Herndon mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Herndon have the most bearers?
- Herndon is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled херндон.
What do you want to know about Herndon?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herndonThe 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, “Herndon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.