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Hermelinda

#9,084 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Ermelinde

Hermelinda has been given to 2,039 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #9,084 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1953, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Hermelinda, 2025

1 in 301,000

Hermelinda over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hermelinda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ermelinde

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hermelinda means

Hermelinda is a form of Ermelinde.

Origin, language, and formation

Hermelinda is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ermelinde.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Hermelinda is pronounced /eɾmeˈlinda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,039 girls were recorded with the name Hermelinda between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1953; its best national rank was #1,267 in 1953.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,198 in 2015 to #9,084 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 Hermelinda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,084
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hermelinda 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hermelinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hermelindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hermelinda was born before 1960 — so the typical Hermelinda is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,450
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1950s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (422).

Is Hermelinda 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
+1,491
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,114
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.83×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.6%
Peak was 1953 (59)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,267
1953

Spellings of Hermelinda

Hermelinda is not the most common spelling — Herlinda is, with 56.4% against Hermelinda's 26.1%.

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 Hermelinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Hermelinda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 20,081 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 50,000).

29 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in 50,000

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. Hermelinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Hermelinda

People whose public names include Hermelinda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hermelinda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,084
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,267
1953
Peak year
1953
59 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,039
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Hermelinda

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

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Names with a curve like Hermelinda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hermelinda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DelaineArnitaJayJohnetteVanitaKarleenMerrillRegenaDennisWilletteJacqualineTonie

Sibling names for Hermelinda

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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