Herman families are Croats and they are mostly from Cakovec area. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Cakovec and in Cakovec area.
Prevalence
About 600 people with faimily name Herman live in Croatia today, in 270 households. There were 790 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number decreased by 20 percent. They are located in almost all Croatian counties, in 43 cities and 70 other places, mostly in Zagreb (100), Belica in Cakovec area (85), Cakovec (75), Ivanovec (15), and in Vukovar (15).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned about one hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.