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Hermann

Boys' name

Form of Herman

Hermann has been given to 731 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Hermann, 2024

1 in 557,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hermann: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Herman

German and Old High German

What Hermann means

Hermann is a form of Herman.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hermann is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɛʁ.man/ for Hermann.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Hermann is a form of Herman. Herman has more than one origin or interpretation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hermann (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Hermann is used in English, Faroese, German and Icelandic. Its origins include German and Old High German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Herman.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Hermann is pronounced /ˈhɛʁ.man/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 731 boys were recorded with the name Hermann between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1916; its best national rank was #657 in 1880.

How common is Hermann?

Hermann had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hermann 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hermann. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hermanns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hermann was born before 1934 — so the typical Hermann is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
248
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (144).

Is Hermann 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 1916 (22)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#657
1880

Spellings of Hermann

Hermann is not the most common spelling — Herman is, with 66.6% against Hermann's 0.36%.

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 Hermann is used

Across 1910–2025, Hermann was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 832,740 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Hermann has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hermann around the world

Where Hermann 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.

  • France
    1900–2024
    #5,012
    in 2024
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #393
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1953–1973
    #454
    in 1973

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

Hermann 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
#657
1880
Peak year
1916
22 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
731
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hermann

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

HermesHersonHershyHerculesHershalHeronHershHerchelHermiloHernandoHeroldHeraldHeroHerbieHerveyLochlannHerndonDylannHershelHerminioHernanAntwannRyannHersey

Sibling names for Hermann

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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