Jermaine
Last seen for girls in 2005 at #16,462 · #1,492 for boys in 2025, 118 births
Given to boys 97.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1973 · 2,038 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 42,027since 1953
Jermaine over time
Rank among boys' names. Jermaine has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,492 | 118 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,472 | 123 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,340 | 141 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,250 | 156 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,116 | 183 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,095 | 181 | |
| 2019 | — | #997 | 210 | |
| 2018 | — | #849 | 261 | |
| 2017 | — | #817 | 276 | |
| 2016 | — | #837 | 270 | |
| 2015 | — | #764 | 312 | |
| 2014 | — | #735 | 326 | |
| 2013 | — | #742 | 314 | |
| 2012 | — | #656 | 362 | |
| 2011 | — | #563 | 447 | |
| 2010 | — | #584 | 429 | |
| 2009 | — | #564 | 470 | |
| 2008 | — | #500 | 547 | |
| 2007 | — | #478 | 563 | |
| 2006 | — | #475 | 556 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #449 | 572 |
| 2004 | — | #460 | 561 | |
| 2003 | — | #439 | 572 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #447 | 550 |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #434 | 558 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #443 | 539 |
| 1999 | — | #433 | 538 | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #431 | 538 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #440 | 507 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #425 | 529 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #419 | 541 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #427 | 534 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #363 | 652 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 | #350 | 682 |
| 1991 | #5,004 | 19 | #336 | 724 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #306 | 831 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #298 | 820 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #295 | 782 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | #259 | 860 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 | #241 | 952 |
| 1985 | #3,517 | 24 | #206 | 1,155 |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | #170 | 1,579 |
| 1983 | #2,552 | 35 | #165 | 1,562 |
| 1982 | #2,645 | 35 | #168 | 1,607 |
| 1981 | #2,342 | 42 | #161 | 1,681 |
| 1980 | #1,904 | 56 | #149 | 1,804 |
| 1979 | #2,387 | 39 | #180 | 1,339 |
| 1978 | #2,680 | 31 | #188 | 1,255 |
| 1977 | #2,423 | 36 | #172 | 1,374 |
| 1976 | #1,747 | 54 | #164 | 1,425 |
| 1975 | #1,689 | 56 | #176 | 1,316 |
| 1974 | #1,616 | 58 | #151 | 1,628 |
| 1973 | #1,570 | 59 | #127 | 2,038 |
| 1972 | #1,313 | 77 | #135 | 1,967 |
| 1971 | #1,877 | 46 | #233 | 1,014 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | #621 | 171 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
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| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 | — | |
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| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | — | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
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| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 | #3,201 | 7 |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | — | |
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| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
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| 1932 | #3,047 | 9 | — | |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | — | |
| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Jermaine! It came in at #3,798, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1954, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Jermaine
- 20 spots since 2024 (#1,472 → #1,492)
- 397 spots since 2020 (#1,095 → #1,492)
- 728 spots since 2015 (#764 → #1,492)
- Biggest jump: 3,783 spots in 1970 (#4,404 → #621)
- Biggest drop: 148 spots in 2019 (#849 → #997)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1973 at #127 (2,038 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 50 yrs · run 1970–2019
- Highest: 1 in 765 boys born in 1973 were named Jermaine (0.13%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,475 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 32.2% of all boys named Jermaine (13,527) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 20 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,344 |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 13,527 | #127 (1973) | #215 |
| 1980s | 12,802 | #149 (1980) | #211 |
| 1990s | 6,076 | #306 (1990) | #393 |
| 2000s | 5,488 | #434 (2001) | #469 |
| 2010s | 3,207 | #563 (2011) | #754 |
| 2020s | 902 | #1,095 (2020) | #1,294 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jermaine in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 360,125 of them was named Jermaine, which outranked 14.6% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 3,482 of them was named Jermaine, which outranked 96.5% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.