Hertha

Where Hertha comes from

From German Hertha (see that entry for more).
— Wiktionary's entry for Hertha
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1854
    Hertha Ayrton born
    English electrical engineer
  2. 1886
    First appearance
    #828 among girls, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1895
    Hertha Sponer born
    German physicist and chemist
  4. 1902
    Peak, #571
    33 babies named Hertha — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,057.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally borrowed from German around 1900.
Namesakes
  • Hertha Ayrton · English electrical engineer, 1854–1923
  • Hertha Sponer · German physicist and chemist, 1895–1968
  • Hertha Thiele · German actress, 1908–1984
  • Hertha Feiler · Austrian actress, 1916–1970
  • Hertha Wambacher · Austrian physicist, 1903–1950

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.