Hermes is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Hermes in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Hermes in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Hermes by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Hermes ranks at #4,821. That means there are 4,820 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hermes.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Hermes. Boys named Hermes have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,152 Hermes ranked higher than ever in 1969. By comparison, there have been 88 years in which the first name Hermes has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2005. In general, parents name their sons Hermes only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hermes was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Hermes continues to be a precious jewel: 27 newborns were named Hermes that year, ranking #3,477 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Hermes, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Hermes is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 59 Americans in total bear this name. And these 59 men are located in only four states: California, Florida, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Hermes and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Hermes in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 494,899 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Hermes present.
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 Hermes 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 Hermes 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 Hermes, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Mouse
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hermes
Hermes
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
R
M
E
S
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
E
S
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. Hermes sounds like this:
