Hertz Family History
- Hertz Name Meaning
- German and Dutch: from a personal name derived from a short form of the various Germanic compound names with the first element hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. German: nickname for a stout-hearted or kind-hearted individual, from Middle High German herze ‘heart’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from German Herz ‘heart’, Yiddish harts. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish personal name Herts, which is from Middle High German hir(t)z ‘deer’, ‘hart’ (see Hirsch). Dutch: variant of Hirsch. Danish and Swedish: probably of German origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 129,651 Historical Documents with Hertz on Ancestry
- 60,214 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,533 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,841 Military Records
- 9,395 Immigration Records
- 31,668 Member Trees
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Number of Hertz families
 25 - 48  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hertz census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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