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The herren Surname

herren Name Meaning and History

German: byname for someone in the service of a lord and his family, from a genitive plural form of Middle High German her ‘nobleman’, ‘lord’, as in Herrendorf, habitational name for a place near Küstrin; or the nicknameHerrenhans, for someone named John in the service of a nobleman; Herrenknecht, a servant in a noble family; or Herrenschneider, a tailor hired by a nobleman.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of herren Families in the US in 1920
Number of herren families
 21-39
 8-20		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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