Herminia

Where Herminia comes from

Herminia 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. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,353 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1895
    Herminia Arrate born
    First Lady of Chile
  3. 1897
    Herminia Brumana born
    Argentinian writer and journalist
  4. 1929
    Peak, #726
    93 babies named Herminia — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1931
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,028.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Herminia Brumana · Argentinian writer and journalist, 1897–1954
  • Herminia Arrate · First Lady of Chile, 1895–1941
  • Herminia Aburto Colihueque · mapuche activist, 1910–1992
  • Herminia Roman · Filipino politician, born 1940
  • Herminia Álvarez Herrera · Mexican revolutionary soldier, 1888–1955

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.