Hermanis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vīrieša vārds
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
Hermanis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 10K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 617K
- RURussia≈1 in 68Mas Херманис
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hermanis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
180 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Херманис in LV Latvia, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)Vīrieša vārds
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hermanis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 180 | 1 in 10K | 182 | Херманис | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 28 | 1 in 617K | 28 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 68M | — | Херманис | 21 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | — | — | Херманис | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
180 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling hermanis. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)- Hermann Amadeus Adolphib. 1841LVnot in their usual nameBaltic German politician (1841-1924)
- Hermann Otto Hilbigb. 1860LVnot in their usual nameLatvian architect (1860-1939)
- Hermanis Enzeliņšb. 1867LVLatvian politician (1867-1953)
- Hermann Hildebrandb. 1871LVnot in their usual nameBaltic German physician (1871-1928)
- Hermanis Salnisb. 1877LVLatvian politician (1877-1955)
- Hermanis Albatsb. 1879LVLatvian diplomat (1879–1942)
- Hermanis Budulsb. 1882LVLatvian physician (1882-1954)
- Hermanis Kaupiņšb. 1891LVLatvian politician (1891-1971)
- Hermanis Apsītisb. 1893LVLatvian lawyer and Minister of justice
- Hermanis Matisonsb. 1894LVLatvian chess player (1894-1932)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 182 | #929 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 180 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 28 | #9,527 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13 | #24,870 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 are other forms of the name Hermanis?
- In the etymology graph, Armands and Armīns are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Hermanis a male or female name?
- Hermanis 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 Hermanis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- In which country does Hermanis have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 180 people named Hermanis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled херманис.
- Where is Hermanis most common?
- Hermanis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hermanis?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 180 people named Hermanis, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Hermanis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hermanisThe 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, “Hermanis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.