Hermann

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hermann is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Indonesia it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the German personal name Hermann, literally ‘army man’; also a Jewish surname based on Hermann.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 308◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 445
  • ARArgentina1 in 582

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈136K ●

across 10 countries

#589 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
434 ●

3.7M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 948 ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

GermanLatin · Spanish●2.1M records
ГерманCyrillic · Russian●396K records
ᲒერმანGeorgian · Georgian●258 records
เฮอร์แมนThai · Thai●139 records
ԳերմանArmenian · Armenian●1 records
헤르만Hangul · Korean●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled German in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, VE Venezuela and 7 more, Herman in US United States, ID Indonesia, NL Netherlands and 5 more, Герман in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, FI Finland and 2 more and Hermans in BE Belgium, NO Norway.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From the German personal name Hermann, literally ‘army man’; also a Jewish surname based on Hermann.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hermann is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#1461,174,156593K rec.—1.6KGerman151
DE Germany#85384,523395K rec.—2Hermann229
RU Russia#144381,493157K rec.—#69Герман165
MX Mexico#235208,906193K rec.—669German206
ID Indonesia#39204,100111 rec.—102KHerman12
VE Venezuela#131188,83068K rec.——German80
PE Peru#187177,119154K rec.——German90
CL Chile#17794,6927.1K rec.—35German130
CO Colombia#12881,36234K rec.—90German168
BE Belgium#50846,14610K rec.—13KHermans113
US United States#43442,6821.5M rec.1 in 7.8K43KHerman434
GB United Kingdom#57334,51561K rec.——Herman117

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German291K78%
  • French20K5%
  • English14K4%
  • Portuguese13K4%
  • Spanish9.5K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German290,63578%
French19,9345%
English14,4974%
Portuguese13,3624%
Spanish9,4813%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hermann is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name48K records spelled Hermann9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hermánn, Hérmann, Hërmann, Hęrmănň, Hërmãnn

  • French given name38K records spelled Hermann6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Hërmâñn, Hĕrmåņñ, Hërmãnñ, Hérmann

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name12K records spelled Hermann9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Iceland, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Icelandic, Danish

    Also written Hërmãnn, Hërmãññ, Hermänn

  • Polish given name10K records spelled Hermann4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Heřmann

  • a separate given name7.0K records spelled Hermann3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Also written Hermánn, Heřmann

  • Finnish given name2.3K records spelled Hermann3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Hêrmãnn

  • Polish given name1.3K records spelled Hermann38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Croatia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Herman, Heřman, German, Germán, Херман

81 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hermann is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, From the Germanic personal name Hermann ‘army man’; plate shows short/long vowel spellings and -mann/-man variants.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Germanized name interpreted from Arminius; from Germanic *hari- 'army' + *man- 'man'.

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements heri, hari ‘army’ -I- man ‘man’. The surname is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, probably as an adoption of the German surname.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • $ Germanic: ‘army man’. Hermine @ roth-century coinage as a feminine form of HERMANN. Hertha From a misreading of Latin Nertha, name of a fertility goddess mentioned by Tacitus.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In German, of the elements heri, hari army + man man. This is un¬ doubtedly of very ancient origin, and the ist-cent. leader of the Cherusci recorded by the L historian Tacitus as Arminius has been claimed as the first known bearer, but there are phonetic problems with this interpretation, and his name may rather be a deriv. of the element Irmen, Ermen, the name of a god. The surname is also borne by

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

051015201940196019802000202020 · 1980

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Hermann in SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021), Chile, 1921–2021
Yearrecords
19211
19222
19242
19251
19262
19274
19281
19301
19313
19321
19331
19343
19361
19374
19384
19393
19401
19415
19424
19436
19447
19455
19461
19475
19487
19499
19507
19512
195211
19538
195413
19557
19566
195714
19587
19597
19609
196111
196214
19639
196413
196511
196613
196714
196813
196911
197015
197110
197211
19738
197411
197513
197613
197710
197816
197919
198020
198110
198215
198317
198416
19859
198611
198716
198818
19899
199014
199110
19928
199311
19947
19954
199610
19979
19989
19996
20008
20019
20025
20031
20042
20053
20065
20071
20083
20095
20103
20112
20121
20132
20142
20151
20161
20172
20182
20191
20204
20212

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 98 years between 1921–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18401860188019001920Robert Koch, b. 1843Herman Hollerith, b. 1860Hermann Minkowski, b. 1864Konrad Adenauer, b. 1876Hermann Müller, b. 1876Hermann Hesse, b. 1877Franz von Papen, b. 1879Hermann Staudinger, b. 1881Hermann Göring, b. 1893Hermann Bondi, b. 1919
  • Robert Kochb. 1843DEnot in their usual nameGerman physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
  • Herman Hollerithb. 1860USnot in their usual nameAmerican statistician and inventor（1860-1929）
  • Hermann Minkowskib. 1864DEGerman mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
  • Konrad Adenauerb. 1876DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1949–1963), Zentrum and CDU
  • Hermann Müllerb. 1876DEGerman politician (1876–1931)
  • Hermann Hesseb. 1877DENobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
  • Franz von Papenb. 1879DEnot in their usual nameGerman general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany (1879–1969)
  • Hermann Staudingerb. 1881DEGerman chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)
  • Hermann Göringb. 1893DEGerman Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
  • Hermann Bondib. 1919GBAustrian-British mathematician and cosmologist

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 85 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Hermann
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020108.9K#4,010
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020208.4K#4,103
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008.3K#3,937
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20202.7K#2,571
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20242.4K#383
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.3K#981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,857
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.2K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—935#427
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026704—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—704#4,532
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025673—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 774 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hermann?
We estimate roughly 136 thousand people bear Hermann (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Hermann have the most bearers?
Hermann is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled german.
How common is Hermann compared with other names?
In Argentina, Hermann is the 146th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Hermann a male or female name?
Hermann is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Hermann mean?
Recorded meaning: From the German personal name Hermann, literally ‘army man’; also a Jewish surname based on Hermann.
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hermann” — the 146th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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