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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Herman

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

#2,368

up +280 places

2025 births

58

up +8 births

All-time births

135,977

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1921
3,219 births
Best rank
#44
in 1886
First recorded
1880
#48 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1935
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 19213,219#64Peak
  2. 19203,109#66
  3. 19163,043#56
  4. 19183,041#65
  5. 19193,027#61

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #44 in 1886 · peak births 3,219 in 1921

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

135,977 boys · 795 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Herman has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.