Herman is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Herman is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Herman. In the SmartGenius ranking, Herman is #1,891 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 118,721 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Herman. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Herman is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Herman. This means that several boys named Herman have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Herman has reached its highest rank of 44 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1887. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Herman one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Herman was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Herman will be Herman. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Herman in 2022 – in fact 51 to be precise, confirming Herman is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #2,313 among all boys‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2021, when only 45 baby boys were named Herman.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Herman occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Herman is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Herman is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 118,706 men and boys of all generations bear the name Herman – that is one in 1,406. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Louisiana, where one in 400 men and boys is called Herman, while it is particularly rare in Nevada, where you have to ask an average of 113,139 men for their name to get Herman as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Herman is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Herman and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Herman, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Mouse
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Herman
Herman
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
R
M
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
E
R
M
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Herman sounds like this:
