Herma
Recorded 1884–1964 · United States
Herma was most popular in 1918, when 32 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,472 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 861 people named Herma.
Herma over time
How old is the name Herma?
Herma first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1884, which makes it about 141 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 66 of the 142 years since. It was last recorded in 1964.
How many people are named Herma?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 861 American births named Herma between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 159 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Herma in 2025?
Herma was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Herma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Herma is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 861 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Herma?
Roughly 159 Americans named Herma are alive today — 19% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 82 years old, and half are between 76 and 88. That is a narrow band: Herma arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Herma is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org