The Herndon surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 19,183 people carried this name — #1,871 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 15,400 people counted. That is up 2% from 18,838 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Herndon surname
Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Herndon» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
34 families named Herndon, or a close spelling, were counted in 1790.
Each family is counted by its head. About 210 people lived in those households, 6.2 to a family on average. The table counts it together with 3 other spellings. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 245 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Herndon in American newspapers,
1911–1920.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 100,243 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Herndon in Australian newspapers,
1850s–1940s.
402 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Herndon. The most, 194, date from the 1870s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Victoria, at 1.8 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Herndon.
Who carried it
People named Herndon,
with a public archive behind them.
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William Lewis Herndon 1813–1857 · military officer -
William Herndon 1818–1891 · writer -
William Herndon 1819–1891 · writer
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Thomas H. Herndon 1828–1883 · lawyer -
William S. Herndon 1835–1903 · lawyer -
Benjamin Herndon 1748–1819 · politician
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Herndon,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States1,114 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 744
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 268
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 58
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 15
- Sacramento County historic burials 9
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 7
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 6
- Riverside Cemetery, Asheville (North Carolina) 3
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 3
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Alvin N. HerndonBorn 1898 in California. Enlisted 1942 at San Francisco; bartender from Alameda County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1957, buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery, California.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record W. Cole HerndonBorn 1945; from Seattle, Washington. U.S. Marine Corps, basic field artillery officer; killed in action 1968 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) -
Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record Elisabeth C. HerndonU.S. Army veteran of the Spanish–American War. Born 1871, died 1957; buried at Little Rock National Cemetery, Arkansas.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
Showing 3 of 1,114 records for Herndon in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · Sacramento County, Historic Burials (CC BY 4.0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · City of Asheville (public domain, PDDL) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).
Australia1 record
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record L. B. HerndonSailed from Victoria in 1885 aboard the Wairarapa, bound for New Zealand, aged 33.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Herndon.
- Hermon 465 · U.S. census
- Hermosilla 214 · U.S. census
- Hermosillo 6,508 · U.S. census
- Hernandes 8,612 · U.S. census
- Hernandez 1,043,281 · U.S. census
- Hernando 759 · U.S. census
- Herny 125 · U.S. census
- Herold 5,705 · U.S. census
- Heron 3,934 · U.S. census
- Heroux 1,552 · U.S. census
- Herpin 360 · U.S. census
- Herr 11,980 · U.S. census
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