girls:
1.5k births since 1886
#4284 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1886
#6292 (19th percentile)
The name Hertha is the #6,292 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,453 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 18.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,284 (25.0% percentile) for all time with 1,453 births since 1886.
Hertha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (first recorded for girls in 1886). Birth data for Hertha is available in 70 out of the 80 years between 1886 and 1965. 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, Hertha reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 10.5% percentile (ranked #513) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 118 births per million (ranked 8.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1965.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hertha".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Hertha is pronounced as HER-thuh, which has 2 syllables.
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