Herre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1 . German: variant of Herr 1 and 2
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhəɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Herre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 47K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 869K
- NONorway1 in 40K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Norseherad(measured from records)
- Old Norsehdr(measured from records)
1 . German: variant of Herr 1 and 2. 2. French (Herre): habitational name from a place in Landes. The place name is a Gascon form of Ferre, ultimately a derivative of Latin ferrarium ‘worker in iron’, ‘smith’. 3. Norwegian: habitational name from either of two farmsteads, so named either from Old Norse herad ‘settlement’, ‘settled district’, or from Old Norse hdr ‘high’ + re ‘ridge’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Herre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Herre | 87 |
| US United States | 383 | 1 in 869K | 390 | Herre | 154 |
| NO Norway | 136 | 1 in 40K | 136 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 116 | 1 in 88K | 116 | Herre | 9 |
| FR France | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 895K | 4 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | Herre | 7 |
| AT Austria | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 593K | — | Herre | 12 |
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 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Herre is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Familienname aus einer germanischen Rufnamen-Kurzform auf Her-/Herre-; 711 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In Swedish, a man, a gentleman, a sir (respected man, respectful way to refer to a man)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, hinge (device a door pivots on)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, gentleman (an adult male)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, gentleman, man
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bernhard Herreb. 1812NONorwegian writer (1812-1849)
- Albert William Herreb. 1868USAmerican zoologist (1868-1962)
- Paul Herreb. 1876DEGerman historian (1876-1962)
- Adolar Gottlieb Julius Herreb. 1895DEGerman botanist (1895-1979)
- Heinz Herreb. 1909DEGerman career soldier
- Wolf Herreb. 1909DEGerman zoologist (1909-1997)
- Anton Herreb. 1910DEGerman priest and theologian (1910–1993)
- Franz Herreb. 1926DEGerman historian and writer
- Max Herreb. 1973DEGerman rapper, singer-songwriter
- Stefan Herreb. 1992DEGerman politician
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 390 | #50,366 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 383 | #53,913 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 380 | #57,805 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 136 | #11,552 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 116 | #6,425 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 16 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- Where does the name Herre come from?
- 1 . German: variant of Herr 1 and 2. 2. French (Herre): habitational name from a place in Landes. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Herre?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhəɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Herre mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1 . German: variant of Herr 1 and 2.
- In which country does Herre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Herre in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herre.
- Where is Herre most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Herre is densest in Norway — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Herre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 383 people named Herre in 2010, about 1 in 869 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Herre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herreThe 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, “Herre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.