Jermaine
Jermaine was given to 118 boys in 2025, #1,496 among boys’ names; 42,994 Americans have been recorded with it since 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 40,400 Americans named Jermaine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 28 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jermaine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jermaine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jermaine is “a male given name from Latin.”
Rare variant of Germain.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jermaine?
#1,496 among boys’ names, 2025
Jermaine fell from #766 in 2015 to #1,496 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.16 to 0.07 per 1,000.
2,097 babies in 1973, the peak
Jermaine peaked in 1973, when 2,097 babies were given it (2,038 boys, #127 among boys’ names). The 118 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 118 | #1,496 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,475 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 141 | #1,342 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 156 | #1,251 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 183 | #1,117 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,097 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 210 | #999 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 261 | #850 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 276 | #817 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 270 | #837 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 312 | #766 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 326 | #735 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 314 | #742 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 362 | #656 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 447 | #563 | 0.24 |
| 2010 | 429 | #584 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 470 | #564 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 547 | #500 | 0.27 |
| 2007 | 563 | #478 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 556 | #477 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 572 | #449 | 0.29 |
| 2004 | 561 | #460 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 572 | #439 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 550 | #447 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 558 | #434 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 539 | #443 | 0.27 |
| 1999 | 538 | #433 | 0.28 |
| 1998 | 538 | #431 | 0.28 |
| 1997 | 507 | #440 | 0.27 |
| 1996 | 529 | #425 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 541 | #419 | 0.28 |
| 1994 | 534 | #427 | 0.28 |
| 1993 | 652 | #363 | 0.33 |
| 1992 | 682 | #350 | 0.34 |
| 1991 | 724 | #336 | 0.36 |
| 1990 | 831 | #306 | 0.40 |
| 1989 | 820 | #298 | 0.41 |
| 1988 | 782 | #295 | 0.41 |
| 1987 | 860 | #259 | 0.46 |
| 1986 | 952 | #241 | 0.52 |
| 1985 | 1,155 | #206 | 0.62 |
| 1984 | 1,579 | #170 | 0.87 |
| 1983 | 1,562 | #165 | 0.87 |
| 1982 | 1,607 | #168 | 0.89 |
| 1981 | 1,681 | #161 | 0.94 |
| 1980 | 1,804 | #149 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 1,339 | #180 | 0.78 |
| 1978 | 1,255 | #188 | 0.76 |
| 1977 | 1,374 | #172 | 0.84 |
| 1976 | 1,425 | #164 | 0.91 |
| 1975 | 1,316 | #176 | 0.84 |
| 1974 | 1,628 | #151 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 2,038 | #127 | 1.3 |
| 1972 | 1,967 | #135 | 1.2 |
| 1971 | 1,014 | #233 | 0.57 |
| 1970 | 171 | #622 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,152 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,067 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jermaine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 42,994 Americans recorded as Jermaine, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 118 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Jermaine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jermaine, and how old are they?
40,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 42,994 Americans ever recorded as Jermaine. The median Jermaine alive today is 42 years old; half are between 28 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 31,139 people named Jermaine (488 women and girls, 30,651 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 40,243 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 49 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14,400 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,850 |
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 Jermaine born?
The states with the most babies named Jermaine are New York, Florida and Illinois, with 26% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 4,185 | #1,651 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 3,121 | #980 | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 3,040 | #1,079 | 1.5× |
| California | 2,355 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 2,258 | #1,435 | 1.9× |
| Texas | 2,091 | #1,988 | 0.6× |
| Louisiana | 2,055 | #716 | 2.4× |
| Ohio | 2,026 | #1,172 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 1,887 | #1,182 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 1,782 | not ranked | 1.5× |
Where Jermaine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jermaine is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1923 it was given 2.7 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 Jermaine with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,185 babies since 1880, Jermaine is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 118 of their 118 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Jermaine
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 Jermaine and names like it
- Compare Jermaine and JermaneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJermaine peaked in 1973.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jermaine since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Jermaine: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1973The year the most babies were named Jermaine.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jermaine alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.