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hermes Name Meaning and History

  1. French (Hermès) and Dutch: from the Greek name Hermes, name of a saint mentioned briefly in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans.
  2. Dutch and North German: variant of Ermens, a metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Ermelendis or Ermgart.
  3. Dutch and German: patronymic from a short form of Herman.
  4. Southern French (Hermès): topographic name for someone who lived in a deserted spot or on a patch of waste land, from Occitan erm ‘desert’, ‘waste’ (Greek eremia) + the local suffix -ès.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of hermes Families in the US in 1920
Number of hermes families
 35-67
 12-34		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 56 - Messages: 119
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George Hermes peppem 10
HERMES Lory Ka Lynette Cuddles 1942 2000 Married 22 Jun 1963 t42swisher_dencotx 0
HERMES Cyril Clem Jack Married 22 Jun 1963 t42swisher_dencotx 0
Jacob and Monika (Ehnes) Hermes nsbennetts 1
Hermes of Lavaca Co TX smothersnena 0
John Hermes, Lancaster Co., PA gloriab52 0
HERMES, Lucille CCayemberg 1
hermes/neiman relation J_Mrozielski 0
Nicholas John Hermes Ancestry George Chapman 0
Hermes Family in Joliet ILL MikeBourbon 1
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