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Herdis

Boys' name

Army + minor goddess

Herdis has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1931. 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 1946, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Herdis, 1946

1 in 456,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Herdis: meaning, origin, and history

Army + minor goddess

Old Norse

What Herdis means

Herdis means “army + minor goddess”, associated with herr and dís.

Origin, language, and formation

Herdis is used in Danish and Faroese. Its origins include Old Norse.

Herdis comes through Old Norse Herdís.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 boys were recorded with the name Herdis between 1931 and 1946. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1946; its best national rank was #3,014 in 1946.

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 Herdis?

Herdis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1946, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1946
1 in 456,000
7 of 3,195,175 births
Among boys only
1 in 232,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1946
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
316,391 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Herdis 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 1946 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 316,391 children born in 1946 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Herdis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Herdiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Herdis was born before 1946 — so the typical Herdis is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
53.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1940s — 53.8% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Herdis 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 1946 (7)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,014
1946

Spellings of Herdis

Herdis is not the most common spelling — Harris is, with 53.1% against Herdis's 0.04%.

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.

Herdis around the world

Where Herdis 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2000
    #531
    in 2000

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Herdis 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
#3,014
1946
Peak year
1946
7 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
1946
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Herdis

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

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Sibling names for Herdis

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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