Name profile

Herminia

A Spanish and Portuguese name of obscure Etruscan origin.

US rank (2024)#12,161

Meaning and history

Spanish and Portuguese feminine form of the Roman family name Herminius, of obscure Etruscan origin. The name achieved literary fame through Herminia, a Saracen princess in Torquato Tasso's 16th-century epic poem Jerusalem Delivered.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20052005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 11 births, rank #9,901
2007: 10 births, rank #10,818
2008: no US SSA record for this spelling
2009: 9 births, rank #11,459
20102010: 7 births, rank #13,448
2011: no US SSA record for this spelling
2012: no US SSA record for this spelling
2013: no US SSA record for this spelling
2014: no US SSA record for this spelling
20152015: no US SSA record for this spelling
2016: 6 births, rank #14,331
2017: 5 births, rank #15,902
2018: 9 births, rank #10,545
2019: no US SSA record for this spelling
20202020: 5 births, rank #15,088
2021: no US SSA record for this spelling
2022: no US SSA record for this spelling
2023: no US SSA record for this spelling
20242024: 7 births, rank #12,161

Herminia moved from #909 to #917 for girls between 1939 and 1940. Its highest annual birth count came in 1929, with 93 births.