Hermia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Shakespearean name: feminine form of Hermes or shortening of Hermione (Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026
/eɾmja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Hermia is a female given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- IDIndonesia
- PHPhilippines
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
How to pronounce Hermia
- Spanish:/eɾmja/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Indonesian:/hərmia/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Shakespearean name: feminine form of Hermes or shortening of Hermione.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hermia is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Latinate derivative of the name of the Greek god Hermes (cf. HERMIONE ). This was used by Shakespeare for the name of a character in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595). The name is occasionally also used in Germany, where it is taken as a Latinate version of HERMINE .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Frances Hermia Durhamb. 1873GBDurham, Frances Hermia (1873–1948), civil servant
- Hermia Boydb. 1931AUAustralian artist and designer (1931–2000)
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hermia mean, and where does it come from?
- Shakespearean name: feminine form of Hermes or shortening of Hermione. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Hermia?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /eɾmja/; in Indonesian /hərmia/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Hermia a male or female name?
- Hermia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Hermia have the most bearers?
- Hermia is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hermiaThe 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
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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, “Hermia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.