HiRSH
surname · Latin script
Meaning: German surname meaning ‘deer’, like French Cerf (Tên Họ Người Việt Nam)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
HiRSH is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. HiRSH is also written הירש in Hebrew.
- CACanada≈1 in 150Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 152K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 180Kfew records
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 HiRSH 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 323 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
3,349 named הירש, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
HiRSH in other scripts: Hebrew
(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)German surname meaning ‘deer’, like French Cerf.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname HiRSH is found
(measured from records)HiRSH 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 3,349as הירש | 1 in 2.6K | 3.3K | HiRSH | 44 |
| US United States | 2,185 | 1 in 152K | 2.2K | HiRSH | 323 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | HiRSH | 55 |
| CA Canada | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | HiRSH | 53 |
| IN India | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 9.3M | — | HiRSH | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | HiRSH | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | HiRSH | 1 |
3,349 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017, counting the spelling הירש. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 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)HiRSH 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.
1 . Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Hirsch. 2. Americanized spelling of German Hirsch.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Jewish: from a Yiddish vocabulary word meaning ‘hart, deer’ (modern German Hirsch ). See also ZVI . Variant: Hirsch .
as a word
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)- Michael Hirshb. 1948CACanadian television producer, business executive
- David Julian Hirshb. 1973CAactor, screenwriter, producer
- Hallee Hirshb. 1987USAmerican actress
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name HiRSH mean, and where does it come from?
- German surname meaning ‘deer’, like French Cerf. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- What are other forms of the name HiRSH?
- In the etymology graph, Hersh is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname HiRSH?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named הירש, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name HiRSH?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,185 people named HiRSH in 2010, about 1 in 152 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about HiRSH?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hirshThe 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, “HiRSH” — ranked 335th in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.