Jermel
Jermel was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,260 among boys’ names; 1,352 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Jermel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 26 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jermel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jermel?
#11,260 among boys’ names, 2025
Jermel fell from #5,856 in 2015 to #11,260 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 3.5 per million.
56 babies in 1981, the peak
Jermel peaked in 1981, when 56 boys were given it, #1,230 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,260 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,629 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,205 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,079 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,222 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,455 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,879 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,229 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,856 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,165 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #7,779 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,468 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,893 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,866 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,598 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,972 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,059 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,654 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 17 | #4,923 | 8.5 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,335 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,042 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,964 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,450 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,282 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #3,634 | 10.9 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,766 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,325 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,010 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 23 | #3,050 | 12.1 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,056 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,812 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 35 | #2,191 | 17.5 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,203 | 16.3 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,339 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 45 | #1,714 | 22.5 |
| 1988 | 42 | #1,682 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 29 | #2,083 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 37 | #1,706 | 20.1 |
| 1985 | 51 | #1,363 | 27.6 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,271 | 29.4 |
| 1983 | 40 | #1,518 | 22.3 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,283 | 29.2 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,230 | 31.3 |
| 1980 | 39 | #1,556 | 21.9 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,546 | 22.1 |
| 1978 | 46 | #1,360 | 28.0 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,525 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,297 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,219 | 31.4 |
| 1974 | 34 | #1,507 | 21.6 |
| 1973 | 30 | #1,601 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,044 | 12.3 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,618 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,064 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,688 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jermel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jermel has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jermel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jermel, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,352 Americans ever recorded as Jermel. The median Jermel alive today is 38 years old; half are between 26 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 969 people named Jermel (31 women and girls, 938 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 577 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 275 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 98 |
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 Jermel born?
The states with the most babies named Jermel are New York, Illinois and California, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 194 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 33 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| California | 19 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| District of Columbia | 5 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Jermel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jermel is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 2.1 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 Jermel 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,791 babies since 1880, Jermel is the most given (48% 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 Jermel
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 Jermel and names like it
- Compare Jermel and JermalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJermel peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jermel since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jermel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jermel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.