Hermes Family History
- Hermes Name Meaning
- French (Hermès) and Dutch: from the Greek name Hermes, name of a saint mentioned briefly in Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. Dutch and North German: variant of Ermens, a metronymic from a short form of the female personal name Ermelendis or Ermgart. Dutch and German: patronymic from a short form of Herman. 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 140,582 Historical Documents with Hermes on Ancestry
- 84,210 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,993 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,766 Military Records
- 3,249 Immigration Records
- 32,364 Member Trees
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Number of Hermes families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hermes families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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