Herran
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. habitational name from Herr^, a village in the province of Burgos, named from Basque erro ‘bramble’ -t- suffix of location -ain, -an; or from a village of the same name in the province of Santander
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/eran/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Herran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 25K
- ARArgentina1 in 83K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. habitational name from Herr^, a village in the province of Burgos, named from Basque erro ‘bramble’ -t- suffix of location -ain, -an; or from a village of the same name in the province of Santander. 2. from a derivative of hierro ‘iron’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Herran 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #869 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 3 | Herran | 85 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,968 | 1 in 25K | 2K | Herran | 97 |
| AR Argentina | — | 545 | 1 in 83K | 545 | Herran | 48 |
| US United States | — | 494 | 1 in 673K | 612 | Herran | 180 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Herran | 36 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 103 | 1 in 33K | 103 | Herran | 14 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Herran | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Herran 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.
In Swedish, definite singular of Herre
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of herra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2K | #2,448 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2K | #2,448 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 612 | #38,883 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 545 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 494 | #43,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 462 | #43,955 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 103 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Herran mean, and where does it come from?
- 1. habitational name from Herr^, a village in the province of Burgos, named from Basque erro ‘bramble’ -t- suffix of location -ain, -an; or from a village of the same name in the province of Santander… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Herran?
- A machine transcription gives /eran/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Herran have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Herran in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herran.
- How common is the name Herran?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,968 people named Herran, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Herran compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Herran is the 869th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herranThe 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, “Herran” — the 869th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.