Hermine

Where Hermine comes from

Hermine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #738 among girls — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1888
    Hermine Stindt born
    swimmer
  3. 1893
    Peak, #630
    21 babies named Hermine — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,123.
  5. 1919
    Hermine Braunsteiner born
    Austrian concentration camp guard
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Hermine Braunsteiner · Austrian concentration camp guard, 1919–1999
  • Hermine Stindt · swimmer, 1888–1974
  • Hermine Sterler · German actress, 1894–1982
  • Hermine Körner · actress, 1878–1960
  • Hermine Schröder · German athletics competitor, 1911–1978

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.