as a Last Name
- 41,547
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Herring
Meaning & Origins
English, Scottish, Dutch, and German: metonymic occupational name for a herring fisher or for a seller of the fish, Middle English hering, Dutch haring, Middle High German hærinc. In some cases it may have been a nickname in the sense of a trifle, something of little value, a meaning which is found in medieval phrases and proverbial expressions such as ‘to like neither herring nor barrel’, i.e. not to like something at all.
| 835th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 41,547
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Herring per capita
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