Ermine — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ermine

The Social Security Administration has registered 522 babies named Ermine between 1883 and 1959, spanning 77 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ermine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1959. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Ermine is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 67 additional births since 1906.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ermine performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 153 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Ermine shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ermine in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ermine 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 522 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.