Girl

Hermon

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#8,047
13 girls
Peak
#7,376
in 2024
1950
—
not ranked

Hermon: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #7,376 in 2024.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Peaked at #7,376 in 2024; #8,047 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Hermon in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#8,047 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #7,376.

Babies in 2025
13
Since 1880
4,059
Years on record
119

Babies named Hermon, every year since 1880

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Girls Boys

Hermon: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #7,376 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 15 (2024).

About the name Hermon

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.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Hermoine (50).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Hermon in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
202513#8,047——
202415#7,376——
202312#8,661——
20228#11,597——
20219#10,592——
2018——6#11,294
2017——5#12,980
20135#17,550——
20105#18,001——
2008——7#10,274
20076#16,2105#13,052
2006——5#12,735
2005——5#12,090
20045#17,082——
20035#16,682——
2001——5#11,208
19985#14,998——
19965#14,315——
1995——6#8,183
1993——8#6,434
1989——5#8,375
1982——8#4,763
1981——11#3,701
1980——6#5,807
1977——8#4,334
1976——8#4,165
1975——12#3,135
1974——10#3,416
1973——7#4,250
1972——9#3,453
1971——8#3,774
1970——10#3,149
1969——11#2,759
1968——6#3,884
1967——9#2,853
1966——9#2,868
1965——12#2,408
1964——17#2,009
1963——15#2,155
1962——21#1,780
1961——13#2,367
1960——20#1,835
1959——23#1,686
1958——28#1,499
1957——25#1,603
1956——39#1,223
1955——37#1,245
1954——35#1,283
1953——42#1,144
1952——48#1,050
1951——45#1,076
1950——63#866
1949——50#989
1948——53#957
1947——52#989
1946——49#956
1945——62#785
1944——56#847
1943——62#839
1942——71#765
1941——68#755
1940——76#695
1939——69#720
1938——88#638
1937——87#623
1936——61#783
1935——84#650
1934——99#592
1933——80#654
1932——87#653
1931——90#626
1930——98#622
1929——99#606
1928——87#678
1927——92#665
1926——90#668
1925——97#647
1924——90#688
1923——88#690
1922——113#609
1921——100#645
1920——114#584
1919——91#641
1918——93#637
1917——77#690
1916——75#687
1915——83#637
1914——71#601
1913——38#766
1912——33#761
1911——31#537
1910——19#690
1909——14#781
1908——12#799
1907——21#525
1906——16#603
1905——20#514
1904——9#841
1903——10#753
1902——9#822
1901——13#574
1900——15#661
1899——6#984
1898——12#647
1897——9#752
1896——5#1,169
1895——6#1,023
1894——7#904
1893——10#677
1892——10#710
1891——9#667
1890——8#780
1889——8#747
1888——6#974
1887——6#867
1886——10#621
1885——8#733
1884——7#811
1880——5#975

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).