The Spanish surname Herrera is a habitational name from villages so called in the provinces of Seville and Badajoz, from a word meaning ‘iron smithy’, ‘blacksmith’s forge’ (a derivative of hierro ‘iron’, Latin ferrum). A noted bearer of the name Herrera was Fernando de Herrera (1534–1597), called "El Divino", he was a 16th-century Spanish poet and man of letters born in Sevilla. Today there are approximately 140,000 bearers of the surname Herrera living in The United States.