Herts Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Hunts and Rutland 0
Lancashire 1
London 1
Nottinghamshire 1
Warwickshire 9
Yorkshire 1
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0

Herts Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Herts family

Profession Census Frequency
Male Servant 1
Coachman 1
Joiner 1
Traveller 1
Hawker 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Herts

Name Census Frequency
Mary Herts 15
John Herts 14
Thomas Herts 10
William Herts 10
James Herts 9
Elizabeth Herts 8
George Herts 7
Alfred Herts 6
Arthur Herts 6
Annie Herts 5
Henry Herts 5
Sarah Herts 5
Charles Herts 4
Florence Herts 4
Hannah Herts 4
Joseph Herts 4
Alice Herts 3
Edith Herts 3
Isabella Herts 3
Jane Herts 3
Walter Herts 3
Eliza Herts 2
Ellen Herts 2
Emily Herts 2
Emma Herts 2

Herts Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Harts 80% 921
2 Hartas 67% 702
3 Hartes 67% 476
4 Herts 100% 230
5 Hartis 67% 131
6 Hearts 83% 109
7 Hurts 80% 102

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The surname Herts is the 4th most popular variant of Harts.

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