Hershman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German HirschMANN
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈhɝʃmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hershman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 145K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 7.7M
- CZCzechia1 in 2.7Mas Herschmann
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hershman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
2,302 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German HirschMANN.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hershman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,302 | 1 in 145K | 2.3K | Hershman | 7 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 5 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 4as Herschmann | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
| UA Ukraine | — | — | — | Hershman | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
2,302 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hershman is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of Hirschman.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Oliver S. Hershmanb. 1859USAmerican newspaper editor and publisher
- Mordechai Hershmanb. 1888USRussian singer (1888–1941)
- Florence Hershmanb. 1928USAmerican writer (1928-2008)
- Joel Hershmanb. 1958USFilm director, screenwriter
- Lisa Hershmanb. 1963USAmerican businesswoman
- Omer Hershmanb. 1980ILIsraeli composer
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,259 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,573 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,549 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #198,400 |
| 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 Hershman mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German HirschMANN. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hershman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɝʃmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hershman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Hershman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hershman.
- Where is Hershman most common?
- Hershman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 145 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hershman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,302 people named Hershman in 2010, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hershmanThe 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, “Hershman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.