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Herminia

Girls' name

Feminine form of Herminius

Herminia has been given to 3,757 babies in the U.S. since 1894. 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 1929, with 93 recorded.

Babies named Herminia, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Herminia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Herminius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Herminia means

Herminia is a feminine form of Herminius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Herminia is used in Spanish and Ancient Roman.

Another recorded pronunciation is /eɾ.ˈmi.nja/ for Herminia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Herminius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,757 girls were recorded with the name Herminia between 1894 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 93 in 1929; its best national rank was #726 in 1929.

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.

How common is Herminia?

Herminia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Herminia 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Herminia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Herminias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Herminia was born before 1943 — so the typical Herminia is around 82 today.

Median birth year
1943
About 82 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,564
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1920s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (684).

Is Herminia 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1929 (93)
Years since peak
96
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#726
1929

Spellings of Herminia

Herminia is not the most common spelling — Herlinda is, with 34.5% against Herminia's 29.4%.

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 Herminia is used

Across 1910–2025, Herminia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 20,970 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

017 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 5,882
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7New York1 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. Herminia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Herminia around the world

Where Herminia 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
    1919–2016
    #7,126
    in 2016

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

Notable people named Herminia

People whose public names include Herminia, 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.

Herminia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Herminia. Linked forms have their own page here.

ErminiaHermiona

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Herminia 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
#726
1929
Peak year
1929
93 that year
First recorded
1894
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,757
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Herminia

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

HerlindaHermeniaHermioneStefaniaJesseniaYesseniaMelaniaMilaniaHermelindaStephaniaJeseniaGardeniaLaviniaApoloniaLouveniaEstefaniaHerminaHermineSophroniaPartheniaZinniaNathaniaHerbertHermela

Names with a curve like Herminia

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

HortenciaDelfinaChristeneWanitaRoyArthurCruzVeliaDeloraCharlineRaymondDominga

Sibling names for Herminia

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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