Hermann
The boy's name Hermann has been in the national records since 1880, with 731 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 250 Hermanns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 58.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Hermann
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 731
- Estimated living today
- 250
- Median age today
- 58
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 1,505th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Hermanns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 731 babies given the name since 1880, about 250 are alive — 34 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1967 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin German
From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Hermanns
- Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter
- Hermann Göring (1893–1946)German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal
- Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919)German chemist
- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894)German physicist and physiologist
- Hermann Weyl (1885–1955)German mathematician
- Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909)German mathematician and physicist
- Hermann Joseph Muller (1890–1967)American biologist
- Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922)Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
People named Hermann with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hermann is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Hermann peaked:
Hermann elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Hermann | 2,735 | 186th |
| Norway boys | Hermann | 613 | 174th |
| France girls | Hermann | 5 | 875th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Hermann by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 5 | 490th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Hermann among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Hermann | 23 | 164 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Hermann against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.