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Hermon

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Hermon has been given to 4,059 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 1920, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Hermon, 2018

1 in 586,000

Hermon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hermon: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hermon means

Hermon is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Hermon is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,966 boys were recorded with the name Hermon between 1880 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 114 in 1920; its best national rank was #514 in 1905.

In the United States, 93 girls were recorded with the name Hermon between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2024; its best national rank was #7,372 in 2024.

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 Hermon?

Hermon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hermon 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hermon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hermons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hermon was born before 1931 — so the typical Hermon is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
672
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Choose a decade

1920s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (970).

Is Hermon 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 1920 (114)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#514
1905

Spellings of Hermon

Hermon is not the most common spelling — Vernon is, with 33.3% against Hermon's 0.90%.

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 Hermon is used

Across 1910–2025, Hermon was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 7,143 boys, against 1 in 25,954 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 7,143
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 7,692
  3. 3Alabama1 in 11,111
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 16,667
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 16,667
  6. 6Georgia1 in 25,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 25,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 25,000

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

Hermon around the world

Where Hermon 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
    2024–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Hermon

People whose public names include Hermon, 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.

Hermon 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
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Best rank ever
#514
1905
Peak year
1920
114 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
3,966
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,045
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,372
2024
Peak year
2024
15 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
93
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Hermon

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

HernanHershyWaymonShimonHershelHermesHarmonRaymonArmonHersonDaemonSalomonDaymonAmmonEamonHershJamonDesmonHerschelHeronHerveyHerbieHerculesHerald

Names with a curve like Hermon

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

ClaranceBeverlyAlvieClaudieDillardArtherHaskellLoyOttisArvidElwynCloyd

Sibling names for Hermon

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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