How common is Hermione

I knew one, but she must be in her 70s by now

I only know one in real life, aged about 8 or 9.

Nope, never met one IRL!

It is not as popular as Jessica.

I knew one Hermione before reading Harry Potter. I was the only one who knew how to pronounce her name correctly when I read it

She would be early 30s now. I've never met another.

I was born in 1957, named Mione only, as having the ‘Her’ would’ve ruined the sound of the name including my surname. It was one syllable! Now I’m married and Hermione plus surname would’ve sounded good together!! 🤷‍♀️ There was an actress called Hermione Gingold born in 1897, my mother told me, so I could tell teachers at school in case they couldn’t pronounce my name. (Of course Hermione is in Shakespeare’s Winter Tale too!) This actress isn’t known now, but fortunately, we do have Hermione Grainger!! 90% of people have struggled with the pronunciation all my life, which has been rather annoying having to keep repeating myself, or being called “Mee-own” in the Doctor’s surgery over the tannoy system!! It is certainly not common!! 😉

I think it struggled before because The WInter's Tale wasn't exactly Shakespeare's biggest hit. It's been in literature before JK used it!

The literary critic Hermione Lee was one of my lecturers at university and she was the first Hermione I’d encountered outside of Harry Potter. I’ve since taught one who would be about twenty now. It is fairly uncommon IME.

I've only even heard of one and it was an incredibly loose connection - the daughter of friends of a client of my father's

Beautiful name.

It is still uncommon. Mad to say otherwise!

We have a 10 year old called it. She mainly gets Mione. We have met (in passing) one other, probably around age 8.
Was uncommon when we chose it and I only knew of Hermione Norris. We are Harry Potter fans but chose it because we loved it, was traditional and not popular at the time, not because of Harry Potter though that is what people assume

I've never met one or heard of one besides the actress. It's certainly not extremely common. That would be names like Emma and Sarah. Hermione is about as uncommon as you can get, while still being a recognised name. Anabia, Dolcie and Hoorain and were all more popular than Hermione in 2020, and I haven't encountered any of those names either.

I knew one as a child - she’d be in her late fifties now. Don’t know any others .

I’ve met one and I think she’s around 40.

I know 2 Hermiones, a woman aged around 40 so pre-Potter and a pre school age child.

I don't think Hermione has ever been particularly popular in the UK.

I'm fairly sure most of the children in HP's names were chosen because they weren't very well used at the time - Hermione, Ronald, Neville, Lavender, Ginny etc.

I’ve met one Hermione in real life, would be in her 40’s/50’s now.

People massively over-estimate the general public's general knowledge. A big chunk of the population will never have come across the name before and a chunk of those who have seen the name written down will never have heard it said aloud.

Not everyone has read or seen any Harry Potter - I haven't for one.
People can struggle with fairly simple names. A 4-syllable name that isn't pronounced and/or spelt intuitively is almost certainly going to mean that some will struggle with it.

I really love this name, I think there will probably be Harry Potter comments when meeting new people, but I don’t agree that there would be pronunciation/spelling problems - the popularity of Harry Potter probably helped with this .

Also, I have a different name and I always get comments when I first meet people, ‘is it short for anything’ ‘I’ve never met a _ before’ etc but for me, the good of having a different name definitely outweighs the bad!

I once walked past Hermione Norris in the street. That is the sum total of my encounters with a Hermione in real life.

It's never been an 'extremely common' name. It's never even been a 'fairly popular' name.

I know one. She is 11. Apparently there is another one in her class at school.

Overall UK ranking: 604 out of 5493
64 recorded births last year

According to ukbabynames

Personally, I know of 5 aged mid-50s to 3 for me it's a pretty normal name but not common if that makes sense?

I know of one in her 70s. It's a lovely name.

I've met one, in her late 30s now, and I know of one other, one of my cousin's aunts on the other side of her family, who must be in her 60s.

Definitely not a common name. I like it.

There were the actresses Gingold and Baddeley, so never struggled with the name. Same with Penelope - it was the name of the Margo actress in The Good Life.

I know a 50 year old of that name (very well) she has never met another one and she likes it that way. It is a rare name in the UK.
Love the name.