Hermon
Hermon was last recorded in 2025, when 13 babies were given it; 4,059 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hermon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hermon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hermon is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hermon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,288, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
114 babies in 1920, the peak
Hermon peaked in 1920, when 114 boys were given it, #584 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #11,288 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,974 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,267 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,046 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,728 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,082 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,200 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,176 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,428 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,367 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 8 | #4,761 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,699 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,163 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,133 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,414 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,248 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,451 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,147 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,758 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,883 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,852 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,867 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 17 | #2,008 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,154 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 21 | #1,779 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #2,366 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #1,834 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,685 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,498 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,602 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,222 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 37 | #1,244 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 35 | #1,282 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,143 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 48 | #1,049 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 45 | #1,075 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 63 | #865 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 50 | #988 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 53 | #956 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 52 | #988 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 49 | #956 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 62 | #785 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 56 | #847 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 62 | #839 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 71 | #765 | 0.05 |
| 1941 | 68 | #755 | 0.06 |
| 1940 | 76 | #695 | 0.07 |
| 1939 | 69 | #720 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 88 | #638 | 0.08 |
| 1937 | 87 | #623 | 0.08 |
| 1936 | 61 | #783 | 0.06 |
| 1935 | 84 | #650 | 0.08 |
| 1934 | 99 | #592 | 0.10 |
| 1933 | 80 | #654 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 87 | #653 | 0.08 |
| 1931 | 90 | #626 | 0.09 |
| 1930 | 98 | #622 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 99 | #606 | 0.09 |
| 1928 | 87 | #678 | 0.08 |
| 1927 | 92 | #665 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 90 | #668 | 0.08 |
| 1925 | 97 | #647 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 90 | #688 | 0.08 |
| 1923 | 88 | #690 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 113 | #609 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 100 | #645 | 0.09 |
| 1920 | 114 | #584 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 91 | #641 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 93 | #637 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 77 | #690 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 75 | #687 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 83 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 71 | #601 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 38 | #766 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 33 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 31 | #537 | 0.14 |
| 1910 | 19 | #690 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 14 | #781 | 0.09 |
| 1908 | 12 | #799 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 21 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1906 | 16 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1905 | 20 | #514 | 0.15 |
| 1904 | 9 | #841 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 10 | #753 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 9 | #821 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 13 | #574 | 0.12 |
| 1900 | 15 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1899 | 6 | #983 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 12 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 9 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 7 | #903 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 10 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1892 | 10 | #709 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 9 | #667 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 8 | #780 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 8 | #747 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 6 | #974 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 6 | #867 | 0.06 |
| 1886 | 10 | #621 | 0.09 |
| 1885 | 8 | #733 | 0.07 |
| 1884 | 7 | #811 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 5 | #975 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hermon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,059 Americans recorded as Hermon, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hermon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hermon, and how old are they?
An estimated 946 Americans named Hermon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 57 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 848 people named Hermon (150 women and girls, 698 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,198 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Hermon born?
The states with the most babies named Hermon are North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama, with 39% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 289 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Mississippi | 283 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Alabama | 281 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Arkansas | 262 | not ranked | 4.1× |
| Georgia | 216 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Texas | 206 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 157 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| South Carolina | 140 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Louisiana | 124 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Kentucky | 90 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Hermon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hermon is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 4.1 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 boys’ 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 Hermon 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 141,624 babies since 1880, Hermon is the second most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 71 babies (18%), again the second 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 Hermon
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 Hermon and names like it
- Compare Hermon and HermanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHermon peaked in 1920.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hermon since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Hermon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Hermon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.