Hermán
given name · Latin script
Meaning: germánico Hariman, de hari 'ejército' + man 'hombre': 'hombre del ejército'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/ɛrman/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Hermán is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 948(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.2K
- FIFinland1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 948 (inferred from the name graph)
42,824 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Herman in US United States, NO Norway, HU Hungary.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)germánico Hariman, de hari 'ejército' + man 'hombre': 'hombre del ejército'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hermán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 42,824 | 1 in 7.8K | 43K | Herman | 115 |
| SE Sweden | — | 8,686 | 1 in 1.2K | 8.7K | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,766 | 1 in 948 | 22K | Herman | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,550 | 1 in 1.2K | 13K | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,325 | 1 in 29K | 3.6K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 447 | 1 in 4.7K | 475 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 263 | 1 in 2.9K | 263 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | #865 | — | — | — | Herman | 95 |
42,824 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hermannus Alemannusb. 1250DEnot in their usual namemedieval bishop and translator
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hermán?
- In Spanish /ɛrman/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Hermán a male or female name?
- Hermán 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.
- What does the name Hermán mean?
- Recorded meaning: germánico Hariman, de hari 'ejército' + man 'hombre': 'hombre del ejército'
- In which country does Hermán have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Hermán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled herman.
- Where is Hermán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hermán is densest in Norway — about 1 in 948 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hermán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 42,824 people named Hermán in 2020, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Hermán compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Hermán is the 865th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hermán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herm%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Hermán” — the 865th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.