Hertha
Hertha is a girl's name that peaked in 1916, when it was the 840th most popular in the United States. Its origin is given as Germanic languages. It has not appeared in the national data since 1965. About 110 Herthas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 82.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Hertha
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,453
- Estimated living today
- 110
- Median age today
- 82
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 840th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1886
How old the living Herthas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,453 babies given the name since 1886, about 110 are alive — 8 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1943 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 Germanic languages
From German Hertha (see that entry for more).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Herthas
- Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923)English electrical engineer
- Hertha Sponer (1895–1968)German physicist and chemist
- Hertha Thiele (1908–1984)German actress
- Hertha Wambacher (1903–1950)Austrian physicist
- Hertha Feiler (1916–1970)Austrian actress
- Hertha von Walther (1903–1987)German actress
People named Hertha with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Hertha is most common
Across the country Hertha is recorded 0.07 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Herthas are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular girls’ names the year Hertha peaked:
Hertha elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Hertha | 80 | 605th |
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.
Hertha 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 girls | Hertha | — | 6 |
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
Hertha 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.