Hermans — Family Name, Records and Arms

Spellings drift, and Hermans is where Herman drifted for some families. Read literally, Hermans points to “Army man, warrior”. The extra ending in Hermans is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Herman's family. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Hermans with 802 bearers, at rank 29,447. French birth records list 674 children named Hermans between 1891 and 2000. There were 28 such births in the 1890s and 97 in the 1990s.

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