Hermes Genealogy and Hermes Family History Information

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.