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herr Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German herre, German Herr ‘master’, ‘lord’; a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and behaved in a lordly manner, or an occupational name for someone in the service of the lord of the manor. As a Jewish surname it is often ornamental.
  2. Breton: variant of Her.
  3. Irish: variant spelling of Hare 4.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The herr name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the herr family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of herr Families in the US in 1920
Number of herr families
 375-748
 126-374		 1-125
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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