Hermine
Hermine is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 637th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191651 births
- Best rank
- #637in 1893
- Since 1880
- 1,534people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,534 girls have been named Hermine in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 51 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 51 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Hermine | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 | |
| 1890s | 131 | |
| 1900s | 116 | |
| 1910s | 348 | |
| 1920s | 366 | |
| 1930s | 247 | |
| 1940s | 162 | |
| 1950s | 91 | |
| 1960s | 14 | |
| 1970s | 8 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Hermine was the 962nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Hermine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Selmapeak 1918
- Unapeak 1921
- Florancepeak 1917
- Ednapeak 1918
- Bulapeak 1920
- Almapeak 1918
- Leotapeak 1918
- Oleviapeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.