Herma

Where Herma comes from

Herma hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1884
    First appearance
    #1,024 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1889
    Peak, #839
    10 babies named Herma — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1890
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,338.
  4. 1902
    Herma Szabo born
    Austrian figure skater
  5. 1915
    Herma Bauma born
    Austrian athlete and handballer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Herma Bauma · Austrian athlete and handballer, 1915–2003
  • Herma Szabo · Austrian figure skater, 1902–1986
  • Herma Meijer · Dutch speed skater, born 1969
  • Herma Auguste Wittstock · German performance artist, born 1977
  • Herma Marksman · Venezuelan historian, born 1949

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.