Ermias
Ermias was given to 184 boys in 2025, #1,146 among boys’ names; 2,251 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,240 Americans named Ermias and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 7.
Ermias dropped 160 places in 2025, the #20 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ermias by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ermias?
#1,146 among boys’ names, 2025
Ermias rose from #8,244 in 2015 to #1,146 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.00 to 0.11 per 1,000.
529 babies in 2019, the peak
Ermias peaked in 2019, when 529 babies were given it (523 boys, #540 among boys’ names). The 184 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 184 | #1,146 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 228 | #986 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 243 | #932 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 265 | #890 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 296 | #816 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 415 | #645 | 0.24 |
| 2019 | 523 | #540 | 0.29 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,853 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,344 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,244 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #8,341 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,698 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,220 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #11,361 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,974 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,218 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,094 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,917 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,416 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ermias a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ermias has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 20 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ermias: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ermias, and how old are they?
2,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,251 Americans ever recorded as Ermias. The median Ermias alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 1,099 people named Ermias (9 women and girls, 1,090 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 720 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 43 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,190 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Ermias born?
The states with the most babies named Ermias are Texas, California and New York, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 18 | #1,179 | 1.0× |
| California | 16 | #1,215 | 1.1× |
| New York | 13 | #960 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 10 | #869 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,390 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #959 | 1.2× |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #571 | 1.2× |
| Washington | 8 | #750 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 7 | #800 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,033 | 0.9× |
Where Ermias is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ermias is most over-represented in California: since 1999 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ermias with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ermias
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ermias and names like it
- Compare Ermias and IzanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sErmias peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ermias since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Ermias.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ermias alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with EMost given first.