Kerby vs Kermit

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Kerby Kermit

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 122 years in which either name was published, Kermit for 110 years and Kerby for 12 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

• 1900–1989 Kermit ahead, apart from one short spell
• 1990–1992 Kerby ahead
• 1993–2018 Kermit ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 2020–2024 Kerby ahead

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Kermits alive today are over 67; half the Kerbys are over 41. That is 26 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Kerby Florida (23.0×)
• Kermit West Virginia (7.6×), North Dakota (5.2×), Minnesota (3.2×)

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

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