Hermès

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Hermes (god)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries

/ɛʁ.mɛs/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary

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Hermès is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

  • CRCosta Rica1 in 8.3K(measured from records)
  • ECEcuador1 in 9.1K
  • ALAlbania1 in 10K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

11,177 people, 2022

Record sources
305 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hermes in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain.

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)

Hermes (god)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hermès 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.

Where Hermès is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil11,1771 in 19K13KHermes6
EC Ecuador1,8531 in 9.1K1.9K—8
US United States1,8521 in 180K4.4KHermes305
CR Costa Rica6161 in 8.3K616——
ES Spain5801 in 86K580Hermes24
AL Albania3051 in 10K305——

11,177 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Hermès is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Hermés, Hermes

  • Spanish given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Khmer

    Also written Hermes, Hermés

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
18001850190019502000Thierry Hermès, b. 1801Erich Hermes, b. 1881Patrick Guerrand-Hermès, b. 1932Xavier Guerrand-Hermès, b. 1940Hubert Guerrand-Hermès, b. 1940Corinne Hermès, b. 1961

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)
InformalBonjour Hermès,Hi Hermès, (English)

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)

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 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

What does the name Hermès mean, and where does it come from?
Hermes (god) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Hermès?
In French /ɛʁ.mɛs/ (Wiktionary).
Is Hermès a male or female name?
Hermès 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.
In which country does Hermès have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Hermès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hermes.
Where is Hermès most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hermès is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 8.3 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hermès?
In Brazil, the national register counted 11,177 people named Hermès in 2022, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/herm%C3%A8s

The 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, “Hermès”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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