Hermann
Hermann was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 731 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hermann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hermann mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hermann is “a male given name from German.”
From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hermann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,433, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1916, the peak
Hermann peaked in 1916, when 22 boys were given it, #1,528 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,433 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,222 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,761 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,232 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 8 | #9,054 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #13,169 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,511 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,812 | 2.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,010 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,688 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #7,715 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,120 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,181 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,658 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,804 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,796 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,975 | 5.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,771 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,373 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,943 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,372 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,715 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,188 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,591 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,452 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 9 | #2,930 | 4.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,819 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,127 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,392 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,119 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,702 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,359 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,058 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,016 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,961 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,521 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,475 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,133 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #3,135 | 4.0 |
| 1947 | 10 | #2,568 | 5.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,323 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,826 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,062 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,734 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,762 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 8 | #2,702 | 7.2 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,322 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 14 | #1,949 | 13.1 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,357 | 9.6 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,182 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,642 | 8.7 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,142 | 12.5 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,384 | 10.6 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,675 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,042 | 13.9 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,935 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,836 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,800 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,041 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,537 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 19 | #1,834 | 17.3 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,895 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,102 | 14.5 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,920 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,314 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,610 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,934 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,528 | 24.7 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,740 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,415 | 29.0 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,343 | 31.2 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,573 | 25.6 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,492 | 30.9 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,361 | 36.6 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,158 | 45.3 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,061 | 48.9 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,150 | 41.0 |
| 1883 | 5 | #962 | 47.8 |
| 1882 | 6 | #884 | 52.8 |
| 1881 | 6 | #820 | 59.6 |
| 1880 | 9 | #657 | 81.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hermann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hermann has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hermann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hermann, and how old are they?
An estimated 246 Americans named Hermann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 40 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,207 people named Hermann (3 women and girls, 1,204 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 282 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 141,624 babies since 1880, Hermann is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 71 babies recorded by SSA was a Hermann (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hermann
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hermann and names like it
- Compare Hermann and HermanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHermann peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hermann since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Hermann: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Hermann.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hermann alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.