Hermenegildo

Boys' name

Great, immense + payment, tribute, compensation

Hermenegildo has been given to 91 babies in the U.S. since 1922. 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 1995, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Hermenegildo, 2003

1 in 760,000

Hermenegildo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hermenegildo: meaning, origin, and history

Great, immense + payment, tribute, compensation

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hermenegildo means

Hermenegildo means “great, immense + payment, tribute, compensation”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hermenegildo is used in Spanish and Portuguese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /eɾ.me.ne.ˈxil.do/ for Hermenegildo.

Origin, language, and formation

Hermenegildo is used in Portuguese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hermenegild.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Hermenegildo is pronounced /eʁ.me.neˈʒiw.du/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 91 boys were recorded with the name Hermenegildo between 1922 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1995; its best national rank was #3,092 in 1967.

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.

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How common is Hermenegildo?

Hermenegildo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003: 1 in 760,000; 5 of 3,801,425 births
Among boys only: 1 in 395,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2003: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 526,991 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hermenegildo 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 2003 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 526,991 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hermenegildo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hermenegildos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hermenegildo was born before 1971 — so the typical Hermenegildo is around 54 today.

Median birth year: 1971; About 54 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 37.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 54; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Hermenegildo 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1995 (9)
Years since peak: 30; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 8.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,092; 1967

Where Hermenegildo is used

Across 1910–2025, Hermenegildo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 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. Hermenegildo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hermenegildo around the world

Where Hermenegildo 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
1972–1972
#2,171
in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hermenegildo 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: —
Best rank ever: #3,092; 1967
Peak year: 1995; 9 that year
First recorded: 1922
Last recorded: 2003
All-time count: 91
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Hermenegildo

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

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Sibling names for Hermenegildo

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

For a sister

Salena Corrina Darby Alexandrea Iman Breonna Fabiola Berenice

For a brother

Rashawn Travon Madison Austen Deonte Denton Austyn Claudio

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