Erma
Erma is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 138th, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19201,529 births
- Best rank
- #138in 1911
- Since 1880
- 54,923people given the name
The story in the numbers
54,923 girls have been named Erma in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 1,529 births — 0.13% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 1,529 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 88 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Erma | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 540 | |
| 1890s | 1,895 | |
| 1900s | 3,623 | |
| 1910s | 10,953 | |
| 1920s | 14,260 | |
| 1930s | 9,701 | |
| 1940s | 6,555 | |
| 1950s | 3,916 | |
| 1960s | 1,719 | |
| 1970s | 639 | |
| 1980s | 385 | |
| 1990s | 235 | |
| 2000s | 224 | |
| 2010s | 179 | |
| 2020s | 99 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Erma was the 152nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Erma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myrtispeak 1921
- Naomapeak 1924
- Albertapeak 1919
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Adellpeak 1921
- Marionpeak 1924
- Myrticepeak 1918
- Irenepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.