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Hermes: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,607 in 1969.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,607 in 1969; #3,209 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hermes in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,209 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1969, at #2,607.
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Hermes: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,607 in 1969 · most boys in one year: 37 (2025).
In 2025, 37 US boys were named Hermes, making it the 3,209th most common boys’ name of the year, up 712 places from #3,921 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 28 boys named Hermes in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,607, reached in 1969. The most boys given the name in a single year was 37, in 2025. For comparison, it was #6,463 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hermes in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 6 babies. In all, 702 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 170 babies named Hermes.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 221 US boys were named Hermes; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 46,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 37 | #3,209 |
| 2024 | — | — | 28 | #3,921 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,750 |
| 2022 | — | — | 27 | #4,028 |
| 2021 | — | — | 30 | #3,681 |
| 2020 | — | — | 18 | #5,108 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,448 | 20 | #4,863 |
| 2018 | — | — | 9 | #8,409 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,446 |
| 2016 | — | — | 9 | #8,388 |
| 2015 | — | — | 13 | #6,463 |
| 2014 | — | — | 8 | #9,089 |
| 2013 | — | — | 16 | #5,487 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,105 |
| 2011 | — | — | 8 | #9,062 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,373 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #6,964 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #7,903 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,206 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,164 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,276 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #6,910 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,244 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,634 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #6,061 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,725 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #4,982 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,841 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,707 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,625 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,605 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,505 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,344 |
| 1991 | — | — | 15 | #3,889 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,703 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #5,851 |
| 1988 | — | — | 12 | #4,008 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,405 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,234 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,670 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,033 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #3,980 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,753 |
| 1980 | — | — | 15 | #3,006 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,727 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,189 |
| 1975 | — | — | 7 | #4,513 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,978 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,396 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,007 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,607 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,212 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,143 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,736 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,801 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,805 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,669 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,091 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).