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Hermes

#3,208 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly cairn, pile of stones, boundary marker

Hermes has been given to 702 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #3,208 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Hermes, 2025

1 in 89,600

Hermes over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hermes: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly cairn, pile of stones, boundary marker

Ancient Greek

What Hermes means

Hermes may mean “cairn, pile of stones, boundary marker”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hermes is used in Latin and Portuguese. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Hermes comes through Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Latin, Hermes is pronounced [ˈhɛr.meːs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 697 boys were recorded with the name Hermes between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,606 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,104 in 2020 to #3,208 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,458 in 2015 to #3,208 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Hermes between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #16,442 in 2019.

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 Hermes?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 46,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,208
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hermes 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 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 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hermes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hermess were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hermes was born before 2003 — so the typical Hermes is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
691
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (170).

Is Hermes 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
+711
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,896
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,250
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.85×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (37)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,606
1969

Spellings of Hermes

Hermes is not the most common spelling — Herman is, with 92.0% against Hermes's 0.47%.

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 Hermes is used

Across 1910–2025, Hermes was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 495,810 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Hermes has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hermes around the world

Where Hermes 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
    2016–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1911–2025
    #2,468
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #476
    in 1988

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.

Hermes by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,208
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,896
Best rank ever
#2,606
1969
Peak year
2025
37 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
697
Count in 2025
37

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,442
2019
Peak year
2019
5 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hermes

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

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Sibling names for Hermes

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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