Hermione
Hermione was given to 95 girls in 2025, #2,008 among girls’ names; 1,839 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Hermione and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hermione by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hermione mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hermione is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῐόνη (Hermĭónē). Not related to German Hermine.
/hɚˈmaɪ.ə.ni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hermione?
#2,008 among girls’ names, 2025
Hermione rose from #3,009 in 2015 to #2,008 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 31.9 to 59.1 per million.
122 babies in 2024, the peak
Hermione peaked in 2024, when 122 girls were given it, #1,678 among girls’ names. The 95 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 95 | #2,008 | 59.1 |
| 2024 | 122 | #1,678 | 75.3 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,950 | 62.9 |
| 2022 | 117 | #1,768 | 71.3 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,496 | 43.3 |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,010 | 57.5 |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,097 | 53.6 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,314 | 46.4 |
| 2017 | 80 | #2,307 | 46.3 |
| 2016 | 71 | #2,525 | 40.1 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 57 | #3,009 | 31.9 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,981 | 31.9 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,375 | 26.8 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,186 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,063 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,056 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,479 | 25.6 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,900 | 32.3 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,726 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,493 | 38.9 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,878 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,934 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,682 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,497 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,251 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,571 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,885 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,441 | 2.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,362 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,649 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,544 | 3.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,724 | 6.6 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,235 | 13.4 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,529 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,196 | 5.8 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,244 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,451 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,620 | 5.0 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,363 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,625 | 11.1 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,384 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,912 | 17.3 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,869 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,653 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,483 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,313 | 14.3 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,193 | 15.7 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,590 | 23.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hermione a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hermione has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hermione: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hermione, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,839 Americans ever recorded as Hermione. The median Hermione alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,220 people named Hermione (1,206 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,122 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 16 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,070 |
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 Hermione born?
The states with the most babies named Hermione are Texas, California and Florida, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,568 | 1.1× |
| California | 8 | #2,358 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,993 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,546 | 0.6× |
Where Hermione is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hermione is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.1 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 Hermione 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,010 babies since 1880, Hermione is the most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 95 of their 95 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Hermione
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 Hermione and names like it
- Compare Hermione and HerminaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHermione peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hermione since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Hermione: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hermione.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hermione alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.