# Hermann (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hermann/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 731 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 731 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 6 | 5,806 |
| 1983 | 8 | 4,660 |
| 1984 | 7 | 5,185 |
| 1986 | 5 | 7,126 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,722 |
| 1991 | 5 | 8,695 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,016 |
| 1997 | 5 | 9,818 |
| 1999 | 5 | 10,519 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,174 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,061 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,238 |
| 2014 | 5 | 12,767 |
| 2016 | 6 | 11,227 |
| 2024 | 6 | 11,438 |

## People named Hermann

- Hermann Göring, German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
- Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (1885–1955)
- Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
- Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)
- Hermann Joseph Muller, American biologist (1890–1967)
- Hermann Oberth, Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
- Hermann Maier, Austrian alpine skier
- Hermann Broch, Austrian writer (1886-1951)
- Hermann Hoth, German general (1885-1971)
- Hermann of Reichenau, German 11th-century Benedictine monk
- Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (1818–1884)
- Hermann Bahr, Austrian dramatic, publicist and writer (1863–1934)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.