Jermaine
Jermaine is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 123 births. Its best rank was 127th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1230.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19732,038 births
- Best rank
- #127in 1973
- Since 1953
- 42,874people given the name
The story in the numbers
41,907 boys have been named Jermaine in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1973, with 2,038 births — 0.13% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1970s alone account for 32%. It has spent 50 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 967 girls have also been given it, 2.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1973, its biggest year
Jermaine was the 127th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1973 were Michael, Christopher, Jason, James and David. See all of 1973.
Names that rose and fell with Jermaine
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jermainpeak 1981
- Jamainepeak 1978
- Detrickpeak 1976
- Jasenpeak 1979
- Antionepeak 1979
- Chadrickpeak 1976
- Jonpaulpeak 1979
- Chistopherpeak 1985
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.