Hermans

surname · Dutch · Latin script

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

Hermans is a surname, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Indonesia it is the 39th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Dutch and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 1. variant of Hermans.

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 Hermann in DE Germany, AT Austria.

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●

1. variant of Hermans. 2. variant of Ermens, a metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Ermelendis or Ermgart.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Hermans 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●

  • Dutch37K44%
  • German15K18%
  • English11K13%
  • Western Frisian10K12%
  • French5.1K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Dutch37,37944%
German15,08318%
English10,67013%
Western Frisian10,35912%
French5,0876%

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◐

Hermans is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12K records spelled Hermans2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Australia, Belgium

    Also written Hērmāńs

  • Spanish surname2.1K records spelled Hermans4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Netherlands, Belgium

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hermáns

46 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●

Hermans 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, Genitivform zu Herman/Hermann; patronymische Ableitung mit -s. Bearer count: 293. Morphologisch zeigt die Karte die verschlankte Genitivvariante ohne doppeltes -n-.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, Starker Genitiv bei -mann-Surnamen; 1 Type/293 Tokens. Muster: genitivisches -s an Herman.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, Einzelform der Hauptkarte; Genitivpatronym mit starker Genitivflexion -s/-ns.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, patronymisch zu Hermann

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

025507510019001920194019601980

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Hermans in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189128
190127
191137
192138
193147
194163
195181
196187
197176
198193
199197

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Charles Hermans, b. 1839Toon Hermans, b. 1916Willem Frederik Hermans, b. 1921Theo Hermans, b. 1948Loek Hermans, b. 1951Victor Hermans, b. 1953Mathieu Hermans, b. 1963Sophie Hermans, b. 1981Ben Hermans, b. 1986Quinten Hermans, b. 1995

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 36 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Hermans
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200813K#14
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—12K#14
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200710K#49
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020880#28,769
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000822#27,595
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010802#29,447
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—325#9,681
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—134—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—106#26,513
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—106#26,340
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199197—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198193—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 59 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hermans?
We estimate roughly 136 thousand people bear Hermans (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Hermans have the most bearers?
Hermans is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled german.
How common is Hermans compared with other names?
In Argentina, Hermans is the 146th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
What does the name Hermans mean?
Recorded meaning: 1. variant of Hermans.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

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

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