Herrera: the surname's root, sound and line

Root

herrera — a forge; one who works iron.

Sound

3 syllables · flowing

Three syllables — a phrase. A name with time to say something about itself. It ends open — a name with no edge; it fades rather than stops. Held sounds dominate: it flows rather than strikes.

The same root elsewhere

One trade, several languages that never met:

• Smith en
• Ковальчук uk
• Ferrari it
• Schmidt de
• Haddad ar

A letter with a history

Inside this surname stands E. In Phoenician this was a consonant, a breathy [h], drawn as a man with raised arms. The whole story of this letter →

Line

your root lives in 6 languages — you have seen none of them

Nearby

Surnames that came from the same place in life — not the same root, but the same reason someone got named.

• Archer — a bowman
• Baker — one who bakes bread
• Barker — a tanner who stripped oak bark
• Baxter — a woman who baked
• Brewster — a woman who brewed
• Butler — keeper of the wine, a household officer

Surnames from a trade · All English surnames

Shadow

The work of a forge; one who works iron — done gently, not by force.