🔥Hermione

her-MY-o-nee (English), her-mee-O-nee (Greek)

Greek, feminine version of Hermes, "messenger, earthly"

"messenger, earthly"

Hermione Origin and Meaning

The name Hermione is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "messenger, earthly".

Hermione's costarring role in Harry Potter has made this previously ignored, once stodgy name suddenly viable. Hermione could really take off once today's children start having kids of their own.

In ancient Greek myth, Hermione is the daughter of Spartan King Menelaus and his wife Helen; in pre-Potter lit, the name appears in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and in Walter Scott's novel The Fortunes of Nigel.

Hermione Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 536 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Hermione

• 536 Nameberry 2025
• 944 Unique 2023
• 803 England 2023
• 240 Germany 2016

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Famous People Named Hermione

• Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton Baddeley, English actress
• Hermione Norris English actress
• Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold English actress
• Hermione Lee English academic
• Hermione Cockburn English TV and radio presenter
• Hermione Lazulie Elizabeth Way English TV journalist and entrepreneur
• Hannah Hermione Greenwood vocalist of English band "Creeper"

The name Hermione in Pop Culture

• Hermione Jean Granger character in the Harry Potter series
• Hermione Lodge mother of Veronica in Archie comics and TV's Riverdale
• Hermione daughter of Helen and Menelaus in Greek mythology
• Hermione queen in Shakespeare's "A Winter's Tale"
• Hermione Winters main character in "Exit, Pursued by a Bear"
• Lady Hermione exposer of Lord Dalgarno's villainy in "The Fortunes of Nigel" by Sir Walter Scott
• Hermione "Hermie" Clavering (nee Brabazon) character in "The Claverings" by Anthony Trollope
• Hermione and Ursula Georgie Pilson's sisters in "Queen Lucia" by E. F. Benson
• Hermione Roddice character in D. H. Lawrence's "Women in Love"
• Hermione "Her" Gart central character in H.D.'s "HERmione"
• Hermione character in Eva Ibbotson's "Journey to the River Sea"