Ermal — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ermal

The Social Security Administration has registered 342 babies named Ermal between 1899 and 1939, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ermal currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1939. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Ermal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 261 additional births since 1909.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ermal performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 122 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Ermal shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Missouri, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ermal in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ermal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 342 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.