Hermie

Where Hermie comes from

The dictionaries list Hermie as a given name — a diminutive of the male given name Herman — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,279 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1892
    Peak, #1,278
    6 babies named Hermie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1893
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1943
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given name Herman
  • A diminutive of the female given name Hermione
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Hermie hasn't yet.

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.