girls:
861 births since 1884
#4855 (15th percentile)
overall:
861 births since 1884
#6878 (11th percentile)
The name Herma is the #6,878 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 861 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 11.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,855 (15.0% percentile) for all time with 861 births since 1884.
Herma first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (first recorded for girls in 1884). Birth data for Herma is available in 66 out of the 81 years between 1884 and 1964. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Herma reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #563) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 53 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Herma".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Herma is pronounced as HER-muh, which has 2 syllables.
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