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Hermine

Girls' name

Ermine

Hermine has been given to 1,534 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 51 recorded.

Babies named Hermine, 1973

1 in 377,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hermine: meaning, origin, and history

Ermine

German

What Hermine means

Hermine means “ermine”, associated with hermine.

Origin, language, and formation

Hermine is used in French and German. Its origins include German.

Hermine comes through German Hermine.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hermann.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Hermine is pronounced /ɛʁ.min/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,534 girls were recorded with the name Hermine between 1880 and 1973. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1916; its best national rank was #637 in 1893.

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 Hermine?

Hermine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1973, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1973
1 in 377,000
8 of 3,016,706 births
Among girls only
1 in 182,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1973
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
261,379 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hermine 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 1973 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 261,379 children born in 1973 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hermine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hermines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hermine was born before 1923 — so the typical Hermine is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
113
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1920s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (366).

Is Hermine 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 (51)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#637
1893

Spellings of Hermine

Hermine is not the most common spelling — Germaine is, with 30.2% against Hermine's 5.9%.

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 Hermine is used

Across 1910–2025, Hermine was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 125,327 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6South Carolina1 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. Hermine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hermine around the world

Where Hermine 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
    1900–2025
    #878
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #64
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Norway. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Hermine 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
—
Best rank ever
#637
1893
Peak year
1916
51 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
1973
All-time count
1,534
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hermine

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

HermioneHerminaEvalineAvelineEmalineHerbertJaylineHermelaHermoineDelaineYazmineHerlindaMartineEvelineAlaineHerthaHerlineRoselineEmelineBlaineKarineCaralineJenineCarmine

Sibling names for Hermine

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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