Feminine dossier · first seen 1886

Hertha

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Hertha
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1916

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1886Peak 19162024

Peak year

1916

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,453

Hertha has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1916, when 65 girls were named Hertha.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,453 Americans have been named Hertha and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1886.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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