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Hermina

Girls' name

Warrior, through Hermine

Hermina has been given to 1,587 babies in the U.S. since 1882. 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 71 recorded.

Babies named Hermina, 1977

1 in 353,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hermina: meaning, origin, and history

Warrior, through Hermine

Latin

What Hermina means

Hermina belongs to the name family reached through Hermina → Hermine → Hermann. Its meaning is “warrior”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hermina is used in German. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hermine and Hermann.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,587 girls were recorded with the name Hermina between 1882 and 1977. Its highest annual count was 71 in 1916; its best national rank was #614 in 1882.

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 Hermina?

Hermina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1977
1 in 353,000
9 of 3,176,294 births
Among girls only
1 in 170,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1977
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
244,628 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hermina 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 1977 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 244,628 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hermina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Herminas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hermina was born before 1920 — so the typical Hermina is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
120
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1910s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (453).

Is Hermina 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
—
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 (71)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#614
1882

Spellings of Hermina

Hermina is not the most common spelling — Serina is, with 18.3% against Hermina's 5.0%.

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 Hermina is used

Across 1910–2025, Hermina was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 163,861 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 50,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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

Hermina around the world

Where Hermina 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
    1900–2009
    #5,622
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1951–1966
    #658
    in 1966

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

Hermina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#614
1882
Peak year
1916
71 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
1977
All-time count
1,587
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hermina

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

HermioneDelainaYasminaHermineDespinaAvelinaCarminaMelainaCarlinaMarlinaJasminaHerbertAdalinaEvalinaHermelaHelainaHerlindaMalainaEnedinaSantinaEmelinaLareinaGianinaSakina

Sibling names for Hermina

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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