Herod Family History
Herod Name Meaning
English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): nickname from the personal
name Herod (Greek Herodes, apparently derived
from heros ‘hero’), borne by the king of Judea (died
ad 4) who at the time of the birth of Christ ordered that all
male children in Bethlehem should be slaughtered (Matthew 2: 16–18).
In medieval mystery plays Herod was portrayed as a blustering tyrant,
and the name was therefore given to someone one who had played the
part, or who had an overbearing temper.English: variant of
Harold (1 or 2).Greek: shortened form of
Herodiadis, a patronymic from the classical personal name
Herodion. This was the name of a relative of St. Paul and
an early Bishop of Patras, venerated in the Orthodox
Church. Herodes ‘Herod’ is also found in Greek as a
nickname for a violent man, but this is less likely to be the source
of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Herod Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Herod families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Herod families
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40 - 77 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Herod families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Herod Family Origin
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