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Hera

#2,730 in 2025Girls' name

Lady, princess, through Sarah

Hera has been given to 942 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,730 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Hera, 2025

1 in 52,600

Hera over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hera: meaning, origin, and history

Lady, princess, through Sarah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hera means

Hera belongs to the name family reached through Hera → Sarah. Its meaning is “lady, princess”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hera is used in Faroese, Icelandic and Māori.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sarah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Hera is pronounced [ˈhɛːra].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 942 girls were recorded with the name Hera between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,730 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,112 in 2020 to #2,730 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,797 in 2015 to #2,730 in 2025.

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 Hera?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 52,600
63 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,730
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
36,476 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hera sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 36,476 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hera. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Heras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hera was born before 2017 — so the typical Hera is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
942
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (349).

Is Hera 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
+26
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+382
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,067
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.57×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (63)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,730
2025

Spellings of Hera

Hera is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 13.7% against Hera's 0.02%.

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.

Where Hera is used

Across 1910–2025, Hera was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 307,021 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hera has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hera around the world

Where Hera ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,271
    in 2025
  • France
    1995–2025
    #1,950
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,542
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1981–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Hera by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,730
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 382
Best rank ever
#2,730
2025
Peak year
2025
63 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
942
Count in 2025
63

Names similar to Hera

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

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Sibling names for Hera

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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