Hermon
Hermon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 514th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1920114 births
- Best rank
- #514in 1905
- Since 1880
- 3,966people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,966 boys have been named Hermon in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 114 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 114 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Hermon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 50 | |
| 1890s | 82 | |
| 1900s | 139 | |
| 1910s | 611 | |
| 1920s | 970 | |
| 1930s | 843 | |
| 1940s | 599 | |
| 1950s | 385 | |
| 1960s | 133 | |
| 1970s | 72 | |
| 1980s | 30 | |
| 1990s | 14 | |
| 2000s | 27 | |
| 2010s | 11 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Hermon was the 584th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Hermon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Virglepeak 1924
- Clairpeak 1923
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Loydpeak 1926
- Arliepeak 1921
- Garnettpeak 1920
- Loypeak 1922
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.