Hermine
Hermine was last recorded in 1973, when 8 babies were given it; 1,534 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hermine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hermine mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Hermine is “a female given name from German” Its etymology gives the sense “ermine” (hermine).
Partially from German Hermine and partially from hermine (“ermine”).
/ɛʁ.min/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hermine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,281, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1916, the peak
Hermine peaked in 1916, when 51 girls were given it, #962 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 8 | #6,281 | 5.5 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,497 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,503 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,610 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,668 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,347 | 4.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,598 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,178 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,392 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,372 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 12 | #3,272 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,359 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,300 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,364 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,042 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,813 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,258 | 11.5 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,381 | 10.7 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,027 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,004 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,580 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,656 | 20.1 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,983 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,491 | 23.6 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,654 | 20.7 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,566 | 22.1 |
| 1935 | 19 | #1,807 | 18.1 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,427 | 25.9 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,339 | 28.8 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,579 | 22.5 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,303 | 30.1 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,475 | 24.9 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,264 | 31.3 |
| 1928 | 45 | #1,141 | 39.0 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,206 | 35.2 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,518 | 24.5 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,424 | 27.1 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,266 | 32.0 |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,095 | 40.6 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,483 | 25.8 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,640 | 21.9 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,326 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 30 | #1,437 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,137 | 37.1 |
| 1917 | 50 | #990 | 46.2 |
| 1916 | 51 | #962 | 48.8 |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,065 | 40.7 |
| 1914 | 34 | #1,026 | 44.6 |
| 1913 | 30 | #988 | 48.0 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,090 | 41.2 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,266 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 33 | #744 | 83.2 |
| 1909 | 22 | #879 | 63.4 |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,229 | 35.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,445 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,185 | 37.3 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,206 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,022 | 47.2 |
| 1903 | 16 | #875 | 61.1 |
| 1902 | 17 | #857 | 64.4 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,051 | 16.7 |
| 1899 | 8 | #1,221 | 34.3 |
| 1898 | 15 | #899 | 58.0 |
| 1897 | 12 | #948 | 51.2 |
| 1896 | 13 | #922 | 54.6 |
| 1895 | 9 | #1,160 | 38.5 |
| 1894 | 15 | #797 | 67.3 |
| 1893 | 21 | #637 | 98.6 |
| 1892 | 13 | #843 | 61.2 |
| 1891 | 11 | #861 | 59.3 |
| 1890 | 14 | #742 | 73.5 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,195 | 33.6 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,078 | 39.2 |
| 1887 | 9 | #817 | 61.7 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,184 | 34.6 |
| 1885 | 6 | #975 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 6 | #967 | 46.5 |
| 1882 | 6 | #850 | 55.6 |
| 1880 | 6 | #787 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hermine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hermine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hermine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hermine, and how old are they?
An estimated 238 Americans named Hermine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (16% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 73 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,494 people named Hermine (1,479 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 351 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).
Where are babies named Hermine born?
The states with the most babies named Hermine are New York, Ohio and Illinois, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 258 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Hermine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hermine is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 2.2 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 Hermine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 8,831 babies since 1880, Hermine is the fourth most given (17% of them). In 2025 none of their 95 babies recorded by SSA was a Hermine (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 Hermine
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 Hermine and names like it
- Compare Hermine and HerminiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHermine peaked in 1916.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hermine since 1910.
- German namesWiktionary’s origin for Hermine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Hermine.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hermine alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.