How Many People Are Named Hertha?
people named Hertha are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 3,024,644 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,453 babies named Hertha in Social Security records from 1886 to 1965, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
65 births
Trend
Last year given
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Form of NERTHUS. The spelling change from N to H resulted from a misreading of Tacitus's text.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
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⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Hertha in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Hertha alive today is about 81 years old, and 100% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 74 and 87 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Hertha first appears in the records in 1886 and was given most often in 1916, to 65 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 1965.
Babies given the name each year, 1886 to 1965
🏆 Rank History
Hertha has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #577, in 1902.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #577 (1902) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #896 in the 1910s |
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