Ermine
Ermine was last recorded in 1959, when 7 babies were given it; 589 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 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 Ermine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ermine?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,198, in 1959; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1917, the peak
Ermine peaked in 1917, when 29 babies were given it (22 girls, #1,670 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 7 | #5,198 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 5 | #4,160 | |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,803 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,206 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,882 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,613 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,986 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,473 | 5 | #3,708 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,796 | 7 | #3,076 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,740 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 6 | #4,054 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,606 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,203 | 5 | #4,174 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,790 | 5 | #4,151 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,535 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,369 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,949 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,664 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,017 | 5 | #4,556 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,744 | 5 | #4,428 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,657 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,418 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,303 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,874 | 7 | #3,524 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,417 | 5 | #4,367 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,670 | 7 | #3,329 |
| 1916 | 18 | #1,893 | 5 | #4,108 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,072 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,562 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,323 | under 5 | |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,376 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,453 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,041 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,692 | under 5 | |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,363 | 6 | #1,161 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,339 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,535 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,241 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,658 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,622 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,294 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,240 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,225 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,171 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,496 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,034 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,386 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,257 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,348 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,194 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,075 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 6 | #851 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ermine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 589 Americans recorded as Ermine, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ermine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ermine, and how old are they?
An estimated 39 Americans named Ermine 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 320 people named Ermine (283 women and girls, 37 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 70 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.6 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,440 babies since 1880, Ermine is the second most given (24% of them).
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ermine
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 Ermine and names like it
- Compare Ermine and ErminiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sErmine peaked in 1917.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ermine since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Ermine.
- Names starting with EMost given first.