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Heriberto vs Hermine

American parents have registered 10,282 Heribertos since 1880, against 1,534 Hermines. Heriberto is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Heriberto against Hermine, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Heriberto Hermine

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Heriberto for 84 years and Hermine for 59 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Heriberto Hermine
Total US births 10,2821,534
Most in one year 24951
Babies in 2025 40under 5
Estimated living today 9,200250
Median age today 3479
Peak year 19931916
Best rank 654th boys959th girls
Rank in 2025 3,036thunranked
First recorded 19161880
Girls / boys 16 / 10,2661,534 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Hermines alive today are over 79; half the Heribertos are over 34. That is 45 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Heriberto and Hermine.