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My 2 year old is Hermione and I really love it. It suits her so perfectly. We still get quite a lot of people mispronouncing it. I thought HP would make it more mainstream to pronounce but she gets called her-moan-ie a lot which was surprising.

Hermione is heavy and pretentious. Hermione Ferdinanda is all that, in spades. Hermione Isla sounds trite - just the way the IE sounds echo each other, I suppose. Hermione Jane is the best, but thematically the two names are too far apart.

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And then there are pronunciation issues. When the Harry Potter movies hadn't come out yet, a German-speaking friend was reading the books to her small children and - at Book Club! - told us about this and about the character she called HER MOYN. Misreading had led to the mispronunciation ...

Don't really like the name, Jane is the better mn

I like it with Isla and Jane.

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Hermione is cute and I like the Harry Potter character.

I like, I like the character and the name is most usable now because of her. I remember before the movie how so many people thought the name was said her-mee-own lol

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I do worry that it's too associated with the character. Not that she's a bad character to be associated with.

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Hermione Isla is very pretty.

I’ve seen Hermione Norris in a few things, I like her.

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You’ve listed the names in the order of my preference, Hermione Ferdinanda is superb and Hermione Jane is perfectly balanced. Hermione Isla becomes Hermioneyisla and I dislike it. Isla Hermione “Hermione” would have been preferable.

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For extra credit: I would use Hermione Rosamund.

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I wish Hermione hadn’t been used in HP. The association is so strong that it makes it totally unusable for me.