Hermelinda
Hermelinda was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,084 among girls’ names; 2,039 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Hermelinda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 42 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hermelinda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hermelinda mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Hermelinda is “a female given name”
/eɾmeˈlinda/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hermelinda?
#9,084 among girls’ names, 2025
Hermelinda rose from #15,198 in 2015 to #9,084 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 6.8 per million.
59 babies in 1953, the peak
Hermelinda peaked in 1953, when 59 girls were given it, #1,267 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,084 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,575 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,217 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,685 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,441 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,577 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,034 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,198 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,021 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,519 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #15,669 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,231 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,953 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,988 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,512 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,507 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,020 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,725 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,819 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,452 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,301 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,424 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,197 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,276 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,897 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,300 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,350 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,385 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,737 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,843 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,924 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,629 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,674 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,973 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,332 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,615 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,648 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,746 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,024 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,556 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,647 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,098 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 22 | #3,422 | 14.4 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,522 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,213 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,083 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,241 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,855 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,770 | 16.4 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,391 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,479 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,541 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,736 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 32 | #2,095 | 19.4 |
| 1966 | 24 | #2,475 | 14.2 |
| 1965 | 41 | #1,778 | 23.2 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,843 | 21.6 |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,767 | 22.3 |
| 1962 | 31 | #2,128 | 15.8 |
| 1961 | 39 | #1,850 | 19.3 |
| 1960 | 48 | #1,622 | 23.7 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,742 | 19.8 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,637 | 21.4 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,692 | 20.1 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,666 | 20.4 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,820 | 17.4 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,684 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 59 | #1,267 | 31.4 |
| 1952 | 42 | #1,488 | 22.6 |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,369 | 26.1 |
| 1950 | 38 | #1,508 | 22.2 |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,521 | 21.6 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,391 | 25.9 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,558 | 20.9 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,933 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,953 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,826 | 16.6 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,026 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,935 | 14.8 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,980 | 14.9 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,995 | 14.9 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,913 | 16.4 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,275 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,029 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,318 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,481 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,951 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,866 | 17.9 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,907 | 16.9 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,911 | 16.9 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,355 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 26 | #1,539 | 23.3 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,861 | 18.2 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,534 | 24.3 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,402 | 12.7 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,835 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,052 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,214 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 16 | #2,334 | 13.3 |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,026 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,203 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,486 | 5.3 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,304 | 5.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,981 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hermelinda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hermelinda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hermelinda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hermelinda, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 73% of the 2,039 Americans ever recorded as Hermelinda. The median Hermelinda alive today is 60 years old; half are between 42 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 6,339 people named Hermelinda (6,324 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,573 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 93 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 595 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 364 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 192 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 174 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 58 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Hermelinda born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,090 | not ranked | 8.0× |
| California | 319 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Hermelinda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hermelinda is most over-represented in Texas: since 1915 it was given 8.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hermelinda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hermelinda
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 Hermelinda and names like it
- Compare Hermelinda and CarleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sHermelinda peaked in 1953.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hermelinda since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Hermelinda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Hermelinda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hermelinda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.