Herzog
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘servant of a duke’, or from a German nickname for someone who puts on airs; also an invented Jewish name from German Herzog ‘duke’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɝtsɒɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Herzog is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.9K
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.1K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
‘servant of a duke’, or from a German nickname for someone who puts on airs; also an invented Jewish name from German Herzog ‘duke’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Herzog is read(measured from records)
Herzog is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English57%
‘servant of a duke’, or from a German nickname for someone who puts on airs; also an invented Jewish name from German Herzog ‘duke’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German27%
German surname meaning “duke”; from a nickname or stage role.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
from the title Herzog 'duke'; cf. related forms
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
ornamental name from German Herzog ‘duke’. Compare Graf and Kaiser.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
duke
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Standesname zu 'Herzog'; im Kontext der Karte als weiterer Fall von t/(t)z-Varianz nach Konsonant erwähnt. Bearer count: 11289.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Herzog 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 | #155 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Herzog | 197 |
| US United States | — | 11,146 | 1 in 30K | 11K | Herzog | 386 |
| CH Switzerland | #114 | 4,198 | 1 in 2K | 4.2K | Herzog | 87 |
| AT Austria | #159 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Herzog | 102 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Herzog | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Herzog | 95 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Hermann Ottomar Herzogb. 1832DEAmerican artist (1832–1932)
- André Mauroisb. 1885FRnot in their usual nameFrench author (1885–1967)
- Chaim Herzogb. 1918IL6th President of Israel (1983–1993) – (born1918–1997)
- Maurice Herzogb. 1919FRFrench mountaineer and politician (1919-2012)
- Roman Herzogb. 1934DEformer President of the Federal Republic of Germany (1934–2017)
- Vladimir Herzogb. 1937BRBrazilian journalist (1937–1975)
- Werner Herzogb. 1942DEGerman film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942)
- Dieter Herzogb. 1946DEGerman footballer (1946–2025)
- Isaac Herzogb. 1960ILPresident of Israel since 2021
- Andreas Herzogb. 1968ATAustrian association football player and manager
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 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,239 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,071 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4.2K | #141 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Herzog mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘servant of a duke’, or from a German nickname for someone who puts on airs; also an invented Jewish name from German Herzog ‘duke’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Herzog?
- In the etymology graph, Heer is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Herzog?
- A machine transcription gives /hɝtsɒɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Herzog have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Herzog in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herzog.
- Where is Herzog most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Herzog is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Herzog?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,146 people named Herzog in 2010, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Herzog compared with other names?
- In Germany, Herzog is the 155th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herzogThe 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, “Herzog” — the 155th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.