Hermann

Where Hermann comes from

From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.
— Wiktionary's entry for Hermann
  • German
Along the way
  1. 1877
    Hermann Hesse born
    Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #640 among boys with 9 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1893
    Hermann Göring born
    German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from German.
Namesakes
  • Hermann Hesse · Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter, 1877–1962
  • Hermann Göring · German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal, 1893–1946
  • Hermann Emil Fischer · German chemist, 1852–1919
  • Hermann von Helmholtz · German physicist and physiologist, 1821–1894
  • Hermann Weyl · German mathematician, 1885–1955

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.