# Hertha (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/hertha/  
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 | German |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,453 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 1,453 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From German Hertha (see that entry for more).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 18 | 1,981 |
| 1942 | 13 | 2,587 |
| 1943 | 6 | 4,396 |
| 1944 | 9 | 3,225 |
| 1945 | 10 | 2,995 |
| 1946 | 5 | 5,229 |
| 1947 | 5 | 5,634 |
| 1948 | 6 | 4,882 |
| 1949 | 5 | 5,556 |
| 1951 | 5 | 5,729 |
| 1952 | 5 | 5,886 |
| 1955 | 6 | 5,449 |
| 1962 | 6 | 6,130 |
| 1963 | 7 | 5,525 |
| 1965 | 5 | 6,883 |

## In other languages

- Danish: Hertha
- Finnish: Hertta
- German: Hertha, Herta
- Swedish: Herta

## People named Hertha

- Hertha Ayrton, English electrical engineer (1854–1923)
- Hertha Thiele, German actress (1908-1984)
- Hertha Feiler, Austrian actress (1916–1970)
- Hertha Wambacher, Austrian physicist (1903-1950)
- Hertha von Walther, German actress (1903-1987)
- Hertha Töpper, Austrian contralto opera singer (1924–2020)
- Hertha Firnberg, Austrian politician (1909-1994)
- Herta Ehlert, German concentration camp guard (1905-1997)

## 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.