Hermanus
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hermanus is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 91st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and English, written in the Latin script.
- NLNetherlands1 in 367◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 3.3K
- AWAruba1 in 2.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈47K ●
- Sources
- 64 ●
- 1 in 367 ◐
across 4 countries
14K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #91 | 47,132△ | 514 rec. | 1 in 367 | 47K | Hermanus | 53 |
| ZA South Africa | #335 | 10,259 | 11K rec. | — | — | Hermanus | 44 |
| US United States | — | 707 | 741 rec. | — | listed | Hermanus | 64 |
| ES Spain | — | 477 | 446 rec. | — | — | Hermanus | 18 |
| AU Australia | — | 435 | 491 rec. | — | 1 | Hermanus | 31 |
| DE Germany | — | 334 | 164 rec. | — | — | Hermanus | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 90 | 60 rec. | — | — | Hermanus | 19 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 71 | 64 rec. | — | — | Hermanus | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 51△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 200K | 51 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | 50 | 62 rec. | — | — | Hermanus | 9 |
| BE Belgium | — | 49 | 31 rec. | — | 23 | Hermanus | 20 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 40 | 15 rec. | — | — | Hermanus | 7 |
Roughly 47K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 367). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian65K35%
- English55K30%
- Dutch55K30%
- Indonesian2K1%
- Swahili1.9K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 64,893 | 35% |
| English | 55,201 | 30% |
| Dutch | 54,555 | 30% |
| Indonesian | 1,995 | 1% |
| Swahili | 1,937 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Johannes Heykampb. 1824NLnot in their usual nameDutch archbishop (1824–1892)
- Hermanus Johannes Lovinkb. 1866NLDutch politician (1866-1938)
- Hermanus Willem Koekkoekb. 1867NLpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1867–1929)
- Herman Brockmannb. 1871NLnot in their usual nameDutch rower (1871-1936)
- H. J. de Graafb. 1899NLnot in their usual nameDutch historian of Indonesia (1899-1984)
- Tony Lovinkb. 1902NLnot in their usual nameDutch colonial administrator (1902-1995)
- Hermanus Berserikb. 1921NLDutch painter (1921-2002)
- Jan H. van der Merweb. 1922ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African physicist (1922-2016)
- Cornelis H. A. Kosterb. 1943NLnot in their usual nameDutch computer scientist (1943-2013)
- Chris van der Weerdenb. 1972NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 41 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hermanus?
- We estimate roughly 47 thousand people bear Hermanus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hermanus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 47 thousand people bear Hermanus in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hermanus.
- Where is Hermanus most common?
- Hermanus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 367 people carrying it.
- How common is Hermanus compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hermanus is the 91st most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Hermanus a male or female name?
- Hermanus 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hermanusThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
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, “Hermanus” — the 91st most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.