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Herta

Girls' name

Variant of Hertha

Herta has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1931, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Herta, 1939

1 in 245,000

Herta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Herta: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Hertha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Herta means

Herta is a variant of Hertha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Herta is used in German.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɛʁ.ta/ for Herta.

Origin, language, and formation

Herta is used in Estonian, Faroese, German and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hertha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 87 girls were recorded with the name Herta between 1912 and 1939. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1931; its best national rank was #2,772 in 1912.

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 Herta?

Herta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1939, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1939
1 in 245,000
9 of 2,203,433 births
Among girls only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1939
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
169,702 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Herta 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 1939 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 169,702 children born in 1939 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Herta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hertas were born

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

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Herta 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 1931 (10)
Years since peak
94
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,772
1912

Spellings of Herta

Herta is not the most common spelling — Bertha is, with 27.3% against Herta's 0.01%.

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.

Herta around the world

Where Herta 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
    1900–1944
    #1,267
    in 1944
  • South Australia
    1953–1953
    #449
    in 1953

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.

Herta 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
#2,772
1912
Peak year
1931
10 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1939
All-time count
87
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Herta

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

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Sibling names for Herta

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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