The gens Herminia was an ancient patrician house at Rome.
Silius Italicus mentions an Etruscan fisherman by this name.
However, in the traditions relating to the stand of Horatius and his companions at the Sublician Bridge, Titus Herminius appears to represent the ancient tribe of the Titienses, the Sabine element of the Roman populus.
A number of Sabine and Oscan names begin with the syllable, Her-.
[6][7] The only Heminii appearing in the consular fasti bore the cognomen Aquilinus, apparently derived from aquila, an eagle.