Meaning not yet researched.
Jermaine: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 118 in 2025. Its best rank was #127 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #127 in 1973; #1,496 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jermaine in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,496 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #127.
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Jermaine: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 118 boys in 2025. Peak: #127 in 1973 · most boys in one year: 2,038 (1973).
In 2025, 118 US boys were named Jermaine, making it the 1,496th most common boys’ name of the year, down 21 places from #1,475 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 123 boys named Jermaine in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #127, reached in 1973. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,038. For comparison, it was #766 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jermaine in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1923 with 6 babies. In all, 42,994 US babies have been given the name, 2.2% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 13,994 babies named Jermaine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,919 US boys were named Jermaine; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 276. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jermaine ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #494 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Germaine (10,274 babies since 1880) and Jermain (2,010 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jermane, Jerman and Jermayne are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jermane (723), Jerman (451), Jermayne (389), Jermine (372), Jermone (248), Jermiane (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jermaine in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 6 | #494 | #320 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #716 | #397 |
| Virginia | 7 | #921 | #841 |
| Florida | 14 | #980 | #581 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,079 | #548 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,172 | #524 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,182 | #468 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,435 | #397 |
| New York | 6 | #1,651 | #844 |
| Texas | 8 | #1,988 | #1,129 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 118 | #1,496 |
| 2024 | — | — | 123 | #1,475 |
| 2023 | — | — | 141 | #1,342 |
| 2022 | — | — | 156 | #1,251 |
| 2021 | — | — | 183 | #1,117 |
| 2020 | — | — | 181 | #1,097 |
| 2019 | — | — | 210 | #999 |
| 2018 | — | — | 261 | #850 |
| 2017 | — | — | 276 | #817 |
| 2016 | — | — | 270 | #837 |
| 2015 | — | — | 312 | #766 |
| 2014 | — | — | 326 | #735 |
| 2013 | — | — | 314 | #742 |
| 2012 | — | — | 362 | #656 |
| 2011 | — | — | 447 | #563 |
| 2010 | — | — | 429 | #584 |
| 2009 | — | — | 470 | #564 |
| 2008 | — | — | 547 | #500 |
| 2007 | — | — | 563 | #478 |
| 2006 | — | — | 556 | #477 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,636 | 572 | #449 |
| 2004 | — | — | 561 | #460 |
| 2003 | — | — | 572 | #439 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,605 | 550 | #447 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,469 | 558 | #434 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,367 | 539 | #443 |
| 1999 | — | — | 538 | #433 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,533 | 538 | #431 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,359 | 507 | #440 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,474 | 529 | #425 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,076 | 541 | #419 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,455 | 534 | #427 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,213 | 652 | #363 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,737 | 682 | #350 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,073 | 724 | #336 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,265 | 831 | #306 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,955 | 820 | #298 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,033 | 782 | #295 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,749 | 860 | #259 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,615 | 952 | #241 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,561 | 1,155 | #206 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,589 | 1,579 | #170 |
| 1983 | 35 | #2,568 | 1,562 | #165 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,663 | 1,607 | #168 |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,351 | 1,681 | #161 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,921 | 1,804 | #149 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,404 | 1,339 | #180 |
| 1978 | 31 | #2,707 | 1,255 | #188 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,441 | 1,374 | #172 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,757 | 1,425 | #164 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,695 | 1,316 | #176 |
| 1974 | 58 | #1,624 | 1,628 | #151 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,579 | 2,038 | #127 |
| 1972 | 77 | #1,320 | 1,967 | #135 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,886 | 1,014 | #233 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,873 | 171 | #622 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,974 | 5 | #4,688 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,979 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,682 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,328 | — | — |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,153 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,541 | 7 | #3,333 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,070 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,032 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,261 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,345 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,555 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,514 | — | — |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,365 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,739 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,666 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).