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Ermias vs Ermon

American parents have registered 2,251 Ermiases since 1880, against 398 Ermons. Ermias is still ahead, with 184 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ermias against Ermon, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ermias Ermon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Ermon for 38 years and Ermias for 20 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Ermias Ermon
Total US births 2,251398
Most in one year 52923
Babies in 2025 184under 5
Estimated living today 2,20050
Median age today 482
Peak year 20191916
Best rank 540th boys1,698th boys
Rank in 2025 1,145thunranked
First recorded 19991900
Girls / boys 6 / 2,24530 / 368

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ermons alive today are over 82; half the Ermiases are over 4. That is 78 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ermias and Ermon.