Given name & surname
Hermas
“(new) declaration”·“border crosser”
Hermas is used as a given name and a surname.
Original GreekΕρμας
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Hermas means “(new) declaration” or “border crosser.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Hermas is a biblical name from Greek.
From biblical name research
How it developed
From the Greek verb hermeneuo (ερμηνευω), “to interpret, explain or translate.”
From biblical name research
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Hermas appears in Romans 16:14.
From biblical name research
Hermas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1926
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1926. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hermas’s family of names
Hermas may belong to the same name family as HERMASS. This is a tentative spelling connection.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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