Hermine — girls' name
1,534 babies named Hermine in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1916. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
24% of everyone ever named Hermine was born in this single decade.
51 babies were named Hermine in 1916 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Hermine
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,534 babies named Hermine between 1880 and 1973, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Hermine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1973. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 51 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Hermine performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 366 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Hermine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 258 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Hermine in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Hermine in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,534 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Hermine at a glance
Last recorded 1973Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Hermine popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1973–1880
- Peak year (1916)
- 51
- Annual births at peak — across 94 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1973.
1,534 total births across 94 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1916 with 51 births in a single year.
Hermine by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 366 births that decade — 24% of Hermine's all-time total
Hermine decade highlights
- Peak decade 366 births
- Runner-up 348 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Hermine's strongest decade
366 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 24% of all-time use.
Hermine by state
Where Hermine concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 258 | 16.8% |
| #2 | Ohio | | 53 | 3.5% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 17 | 1.1% |
| #4 | Pennsylvania | | 9 | 0.6% |
| #5 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.3% |
| #6 | South Carolina | | 5 | 0.3% |
258 of 1,534 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 16.8% of nationwide
- Ohio 3.5% of nationwide
- Illinois 1.1% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 0.6% of nationwide
- New Jersey 0.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 6 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 16.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–1973 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.