Hirschfeld
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling-field name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɝʃfɛɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hirschfeld is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 249K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 17Kas הירשפלד
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hirschfeld 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 268 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled הירשפלד in IL Israel, AR Argentina, DE Germany and 1 more.
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)
Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling-field name.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hirschfeld is read(measured from records)
Hirschfeld is one spelling over 3 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.
- English52%
Al, US cartoonist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German19%
Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling-field name.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Any of a number of places in Germany, Austria and several other countries in Europe.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
compound with Hirsch 'deer'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- Spanish18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hirschfeld in Spanish.
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)
Hirschfeld 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Hirschfeld | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | הירשפלד | 3 |
| US United States | 1,335 | 1 in 249K | 1.4K | Hirschfeld | 268 |
| AR Argentina | 850 | 1 in 54K | 850 | הירשפלד | 3 |
| IL Israel | 499as הירשפלד | 1 in 17K | 499 | הירשפלד | 23 |
| RO Romania | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | הירשפלד | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Hirschfeld | 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Hirschfeld 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.
German; topographic name for someone who lived in an area of land frequented by deer (from Middle High German hirz ‘deer’ -i- feld ‘open country’) or where millet (Middle High German hirs(e)) grew.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
ornamental name composed of German Hirsch or Yiddish hirsh ‘deer’ -I- Feld ‘field’.
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)
- Philipp Hirschfeldb. 1840DEGerman chess player
- Gustav Hirschfeldb. 1847PLGerman classical archaeologist (1847-1895)
- Victor Léonb. 1858ATnot in their usual nameAustrian librettist (1858–1940)
- Magnus Hirschfeldb. 1868DEGerman physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
- Georg Hirschfeldb. 1873DEGerman writer (1873–1942)
- Al Hirschfeldb. 1903USAmerican artist and caricaturist (1903-2003)
- Emil Hirschfeldb. 1903PLGerman shot and discus thrower (1903-1968)
- Gerald Hirschfeldb. 1921USAmerican cinematographer (1921–2017)
- Robert Hirschfeldb. 1942USAmerican actor (1942-2009)
- Lars Hirschfeldb. 1978CACanadian soccer player
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #18,934 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,059 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 850 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Hirschfeld mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling-field name. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Hirschfeld?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɝʃfɛɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hirschfeld have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.2 thousand people named Hirschfeld in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hirschfeld.
- How common is the name Hirschfeld?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,335 people named Hirschfeld in 2010, about 1 in 249 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hirschfeld?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hirschfeldThe 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, “Hirschfeld”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.