Hermes
About 702 American babies have been named Hermes since 1924, most of them around 2025. In 2025 it ranked 3,181st. About 670 Hermeses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hermes boys named Hermes
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 702
- Estimated living today
- 670
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 3,181st
- Rank in 2025
- 3,181st
- First recorded
- 1924
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 697
How old the living Hermeses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 702 babies given the name since 1924, about 670 are alive — 95 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 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.
Notable Hermess
- Hermes da Fonseca (1855–1923)President of Brazil
- Hermes Ramírez (1948–2024)Cuban sprinter
- Hermes Pan (1909–1990)American dancer, choreographer
- Hermes Neves Soares (born 1974)Brazilian footballer
- Hermes of Philippopolis (died 100)one of the Seventy Disciples
- Saint Hermes (100–120)2nd-century Greek saint
People named Hermes with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hermes is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Hermes is most concentrated in California (5.2×), New York (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Hermes peaked:
Hermes elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Hermes +1 spelling | 365 | 1,873rd |
| Switzerland boys | Hermes | 27 | 1,111th |
| England and Wales boys | Hermes | 20 | 3,449th |
| France girls | Hermes | 5 | 5,265th |
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.
Hermes: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Hermes | 17 | 0.001% | 1,008th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Hermes | 7 | 0.002% | 594th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Hermes | 3 | 0.005% | 113th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Hermes 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 | Hermes | — | 21 |
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.
Where Hermes lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 580 men called Hermes were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Hermes | 29 | 0.054 | 1,482 |
| Granada | Hermes | 20 | 0.043 | 1,108 |
| Huesca | Hermes | 5 | 0.043 | 1,362 |
| Balears, Illes | Hermes | 25 | 0.040 | 1,431 |
| Valencia/València | Hermes | 53 | 0.039 | 1,415 |
| Lugo | Hermes | 6 | 0.038 | 1,131 |
Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Hermes 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.