Kermit
The boy's name Kermit has been in the national records since 1900, with 16,472 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 5,500 Kermits are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Kermit boys named Kermit
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 16,472
- Estimated living today
- 5,500
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 256th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1900
- Girls / boys
- 27 / 16,445
How old the living Kermits are
born that year still alive today
Of the 16,472 babies given the name since 1900, about 5,500 are alive — 33 in every hundred. Roughly 90 of them are children and 3,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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 the name comes from
Origin Manx
Variant of English and gv Kermode, cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata and Scots Gaelic McDiarmid (“son of Dermot”). Popularized in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor). The computing sense is named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Kermits
- Kermit Washington (born 1951)American basketball player
- Kermit Erasmus (born 1990)South African association football player
- Kermit Gosnell (1941–2026)American serial killer
- Kermit Maynard (1897–1971)actor, stunt performer
- Kermit Cintrón (born 1979)Puerto Rican boxer
People named Kermit with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Kermit is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Kermit is most concentrated in West Virginia (7.6×), North Dakota (5.2×), Minnesota (3.2×), Kentucky (3.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular boys’ names the year Kermit peaked:
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Kermit against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.