# Hermine (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hermine/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,534 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 1,534 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 12 | 3,043 |
| 1949 | 18 | 2,365 |
| 1950 | 11 | 3,301 |
| 1951 | 11 | 3,360 |
| 1952 | 12 | 3,273 |
| 1953 | 8 | 4,373 |
| 1954 | 12 | 3,393 |
| 1955 | 9 | 4,179 |
| 1956 | 8 | 4,599 |
| 1957 | 9 | 4,348 |
| 1958 | 6 | 5,669 |
| 1959 | 5 | 6,612 |
| 1961 | 7 | 5,504 |
| 1962 | 7 | 5,498 |
| 1973 | 8 | 6,283 |

## People named Hermine

- Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian concentration camp guard (1919–1999)
- Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont, German noble (1827–1910)
- Hermine Sterler, German actress (1894-1982)
- Hermine Körner, actress (1878–1960)
- Hermine David, French painter (1886-1970)
- Hermine Schröder, German athletics competitor
- Hermine Karagheuz, French actress (1938-2021)
- Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, Austrian psychoanalyst (1871–1924)
- Hermine Huntgeburth, German film director and film producer
- Hermine Naghdalyan, Armenian politician
- Hermine Patricia Tomaïno Ndam Njoya, Cameroonian politician
- Hermine de Graaf, Dutch writer (1951–2013)

## 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.