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Jeramy vs Jermaine

American parents have registered 42,994 Jermaines since 1880, against 4,524 Jeramys. Jermaine is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeramy against Jermaine, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeramy Jermaine

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 74 years in which either name was published, Jermaine for 71 years and Jeramy for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jeramy Jermaine
Total US births 4,52442,994
Most in one year 2352,097
Babies in 2025 under 5118
Estimated living today 4,20041,000
Median age today 4241
Peak year 19761973
Best rank 526th boys127th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,492nd
First recorded 19661923
Girls / boys 5 / 4,519967 / 42,027

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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