First name origin & meaning: Greek: Messenger First name variations: Ermes, Hermilio, Hermite, Hermus Last name origins & meanings:
- 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 erēmia) + the local
suffix -ès.
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