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Ermelinda

Ermelinda reached its high-water mark in 1964 at number 1,836, and has been recorded 1,374 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2019. About 960 Ermelindas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Ermelinda

By the numbers

Total US births
1,374
Estimated living today
960
Median age today
59
Peak year
1964
Best rank
1,836th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1912

How old the living Ermelindas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,374 babies given the name since 1912, about 960 are alive — 70 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Ermelinda is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ermelinda is most concentrated in Texas (8.3×), California (3.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1964

The most popular girls’ names the year Ermelinda peaked:

All the names of 1964

Ermelinda elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Italy girls Ermelinda 202
France girls Ermelinda 110 1,193rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Where Ermelinda lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 383 women called Ermelinda were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Zamora Ermelinda 6 0.072 835
Ourense Ermelinda 11 0.069 845
León Ermelinda 11 0.048 1,170
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Ermelinda 20 0.036 1,970
Cáceres Ermelinda 7 0.036 1,251
Huelva Ermelinda 9 0.033 1,460

Listed in 27 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 25 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.