Entry № 4238 · Old Germanic origin

Hertha Hertha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HER-thah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Old Germanic
Meaning
"Earth (electrical engineer Hertha Ayrton)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Old Germanic)

A name that means "earth (electrical engineer hertha ayrton)".

Hertha is the German form of the Old Germanic Erþō (earth) — an early Germanic earth-mother goddess described by Tacitus. Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) was the British electrical engineer and suffragist — the first woman elected as a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (1899) and the first woman read a paper to the Royal Society.

Earth (electrical engineer Hertha Ayrton) — a Old Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Hertha
Transliteration
Hertha
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɜːr.θə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hertha stands.

Hertha does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Herthas before her.

Real people
Hertha Ayrton
British electrical engineer.
1854 – 1923
In fiction
Hertha
Tacitus's Germania.
98 CE

Names connected to Hertha.

The number behind Hertha.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hertha reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.