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The first name 
Hermione

Hermione is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Hermione meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hermione is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Hermione. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hermione is #2,201 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hermione.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Hermione

Hermione -
once in a blue moon

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 Hermione. Girls named Hermione have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,361 Hermione ranked higher than ever in 1898. By comparison, there have been 98 years in which the first name Hermione 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 2000. In general, parents name their daughters Hermione only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Hermione was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Hermione in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Hermione continues to be a precious jewel: 115 newborns were named Hermione that year, ranking #1,605 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Hermione, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Hermione -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Hermione are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Hermione is registered in 11 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Maryland. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Hermione live in Texas, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 70,475 would turn around if you called the name Hermione across Texas.

Hermione has 8 letters 
and begins with an H

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With eight letters, the name Hermione is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.

Other names with 
H, e, r, m, i, o, n and e

If you take all the letters in the name Hermione – H, e, r, m, i, o, n and e – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Hermoine or Hermonie.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Hermione

If your name is Hermione 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...

This is how you spell the name Hermione

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hermione, you can simply say:

Hat

Elephant

Rocket

Mouse

Igloo

Orange

Nut

Elephant

This is how the name Hermione is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Hermione in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Hermione

Hermione

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Hermione

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Hermione is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

H
E
R
M
I
O
N
E

Have you ever waved the name Hermione

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
I
O
N
E

Beeping like crazy...

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. Hermione sounds like this: