In 2025, 13 US girls were named Hermon, making it the 8,047th most common girls’ name of the year, down 671 places from #7,376 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 15 girls named Hermon in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #7,376, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 15. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Hermon in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #514, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 114, in 1920. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #866 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hermon in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 4,059 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 970 babies named Hermon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 57 US girls were named Hermon; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Herman (136,772 babies since 1880) and Hermione (1,839 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hermoine are summarised on this page.