Given name & surname
Herta
“of the earth”
Herta is a variant of Hertha. One English interpretation is “of the earth.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Herta is a variant of Hertha. One English interpretation is “of the earth.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Herta is a variant of Hertha. An origin associated with Hertha is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Herta through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 87
- 0 boys · 87 girls
- Most popular year
- 1931
- 10 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 girls is 9 in 1939. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 10 in 1931. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 776 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 83,837 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Herta’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Herta has a related form in Hertha. In Swedish usage, Herta has a conventional equivalent in the English form Hertha. Herta has a conventional equivalent in the German form URTE.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Herta has relatives in 4 languages.
2 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Herta
- Herta MüllerGerman-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
- Herta HaasYugoslav partisan (1914–2010)
- Herta AnitașRomanian rowerborn 1962
- Herta WareAmerican actress (1917–2005)
- Herta EhlertGerman concentration camp guard (1905-1997)
- Herta Däubler-GmelinGerman politicianborn 1943
- Herta HeuwerGerman cook1913–1999
- Herta Freitagmathematician1908–2000
- Herta MohrAustrian Egyptologist, who later lived stateless in the Netherlands1914–1945
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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