Hertha
Recorded 1886–1965 · United States
Hertha was most popular in 1916, when 65 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,565 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,453 people named Hertha.
Hertha over time
How old is the name Hertha?
Hertha first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1886, which makes it about 139 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 70 of the 140 years since. It was last recorded in 1965.
How many people are named Hertha?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,453 American births named Hertha between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 114 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Hertha in 2025?
Hertha was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Hertha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Hertha is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 1,453 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Hertha?
Roughly 114 Americans named Hertha are alive today — 8% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 83 years old, and half are between 77 and 88. That is a narrow band: Hertha arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Hertha is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org