Ermie
Ermie was last recorded in 1959, when 5 babies were given it; 141 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ermie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ermie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,490, in 1948; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1918, the peak
Ermie peaked in 1918, when 9 girls were given it, #3,330 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 5 | #5,490 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,776 | 3.8 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,298 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,444 | 4.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,474 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,118 | 8.4 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,311 | 7.5 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,776 | 6.2 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,803 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,265 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 7 | #3,992 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,674 | 6.7 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,564 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,243 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,435 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,330 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,447 | 7.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,222 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,721 | 10.5 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,341 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ermie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 141 Americans recorded as Ermie, 96% are girls and 4% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ermie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ermie, and how old are they?
An estimated 20 Americans named Ermie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 143 people named Ermie (105 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 34 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.2 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 55,328 babies since 1880, Ermie is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Ermie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Ermie and names like it
- Compare Ermie and ErmaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sErmie peaked in 1918.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Ermie.
- Names starting with EMost given first.