Kerin vs Kermit

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Kerin 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 107 years and Kerin for 15 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.

• 1900–1996 Kermit ahead, apart from 3 short spells
• 1999–2001 Kerin ahead
• 2008–2018 Kermit ahead
• 2022–2024 Kerin ahead

14 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 Kerins are over 49. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Kerin Massachusetts (20.0×), New York (5.3×)
• 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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