Herrera

At the 2020 census, 186,848 Americans bore the surname Herrera — 131st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 1,600.

By the numbers

People: 186,848
Rank: 131st
How common: 1 in 1,600
Per 100,000: 62.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Herrera described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 92.2%
White, not Hispanic 5.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Herrera

Ander Herrera (born 1989)Spanish association football player
Héctor Herrera (born 1990)Mexican association football player
Helenio Herrera (1910–1997)Argentine-French football player and manager
Carolina Herrera (born 1939)Venezuelan-American fashion designer
Yangel Herrera (born 1998)Venezuelan association football player
Alfonso Herrera Rodriguez (born 1983)Mexican actor and former singer
Johnny Herrera (born 1981)Chilean footballer
Fernando de Herrera (1534–1597)Spanish poet

People named Herrera with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Herrera

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.