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Hemant

Boys' name

Winter, cold season, through हेमंत

Hemant has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Hemant, 2007

1 in 800,000

Hemant over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hemant: meaning, origin, and history

Winter, cold season, through हेमंत

Sanskrit

What Hemant means

Hemant belongs to the name family reached through Hemant → हेमंत. Its meaning is “winter, cold season”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hemant is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Hemant comes through Hindi हेमंत.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include ह and हेमंत.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hemant is pronounced /ˈhɛmənt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Hemant between 1972 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1972; its best national rank was #4,646 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hemant?

Hemant had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 415,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hemant sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2007 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hemant. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hemants were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hemant was born before 1988 — so the typical Hemant is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
27.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 27.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Hemant rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1972 (6)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,646
1972

Spellings of Hemant

Hemant is not the most common spelling — Herman is, with 92.5% against Hemant's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Hemant by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,646
1972
Peak year
1972
6 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hemant

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hemant

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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