girls:
65 births since 1996
#5651 (1st percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1880
#1955 (57th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1880
#4322 (44th percentile)
The name Hermon is the #4,322 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,031 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 44.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,955 (57.4% percentile) for all time with 3,966 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,651 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 65 births since 1996.
Hermon has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1996 for girls). Birth data for Hermon is available in 117 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (108 years for boys and 10 years for girls). 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.
The name Hermon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Hermon were boys. Interestingly, until around 1998, the name was more popular for boys (99.9% boys from 1880 to 1997), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (61.2% girls from 1998 to 2023).
For boys, Hermon reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 20.0% percentile (ranked #428) with 104 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 140 births per million (ranked 6.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
For girls, Hermon reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #940) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Despite a peak around 2018, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Hermon is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #940 (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hermon".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Hermon", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Herman" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Herman..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Hermon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Hermon is pronounced as HER-muhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HER-mawn, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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