Meaning not yet researched.
Kermit: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #175 in 1909.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #175 in 1909; #11,378 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kermit in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,378 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1909, at #175.
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Kermit: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #175 in 1909 · most boys in one year: 431 (1919).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Kermit, making it the 11,378th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #175, reached in 1909. The most boys given the name in a single year was 431, in 1919. For comparison, it was #10,138 in 2015 and #439 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kermit in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 6 babies. In all, 16,472 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 3,009 babies named Kermit.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 27 US boys were named Kermit; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kermitt, Kermith and Kermet 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kermitt (261), Kermith (42), Kermet (11).
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 Kermit in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,378 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,639 |
| 2018 | — | — | 10 | #7,911 |
| 2017 | — | — | 5 | #13,323 |
| 2015 | — | — | 7 | #10,138 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,483 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,234 |
| 2012 | — | — | 7 | #10,293 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,619 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,269 |
| 2009 | — | — | 12 | #7,044 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,511 |
| 2007 | — | — | 10 | #7,907 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,296 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,837 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,349 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,568 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,330 |
| 2001 | — | — | 7 | #8,797 |
| 2000 | — | — | 13 | #5,456 |
| 1999 | — | — | 13 | #5,190 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,325 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,386 |
| 1996 | — | — | 22 | #3,256 |
| 1995 | — | — | 23 | #3,060 |
| 1994 | — | — | 20 | #3,403 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,204 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,286 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,175 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,702 |
| 1989 | — | — | 31 | #2,223 |
| 1988 | — | — | 26 | #2,334 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,919 |
| 1986 | — | — | 19 | #2,739 |
| 1985 | — | — | 31 | #1,894 |
| 1984 | — | — | 38 | #1,592 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,617 |
| 1982 | — | — | 37 | #1,630 |
| 1981 | — | — | 41 | #1,511 |
| 1980 | — | — | 44 | #1,440 |
| 1979 | — | — | 61 | #1,162 |
| 1978 | — | — | 76 | #994 |
| 1977 | — | — | 66 | #1,067 |
| 1976 | — | — | 84 | #908 |
| 1975 | — | — | 87 | #888 |
| 1974 | — | — | 71 | #973 |
| 1973 | — | — | 84 | #871 |
| 1972 | — | — | 99 | #806 |
| 1971 | — | — | 94 | #842 |
| 1970 | — | — | 119 | #755 |
| 1969 | — | — | 116 | #723 |
| 1968 | — | — | 116 | #700 |
| 1967 | — | — | 122 | #675 |
| 1966 | — | — | 110 | #708 |
| 1965 | — | — | 116 | #694 |
| 1964 | — | — | 175 | #599 |
| 1963 | — | — | 165 | #611 |
| 1962 | — | — | 170 | #597 |
| 1961 | — | — | 187 | #579 |
| 1960 | — | — | 165 | #610 |
| 1959 | — | — | 149 | #636 |
| 1958 | — | — | 149 | #630 |
| 1957 | — | — | 171 | #589 |
| 1956 | — | — | 183 | #563 |
| 1955 | — | — | 187 | #544 |
| 1954 | — | — | 220 | #488 |
| 1953 | — | — | 228 | #467 |
| 1952 | — | — | 214 | #476 |
| 1951 | — | — | 233 | #441 |
| 1950 | — | — | 231 | #439 |
| 1949 | — | — | 233 | #437 |
| 1948 | — | — | 209 | #460 |
| 1947 | — | — | 286 | #405 |
| 1946 | — | — | 244 | #408 |
| 1945 | — | — | 245 | #381 |
| 1944 | — | — | 249 | #380 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,018 | 323 | #341 |
| 1942 | — | — | 294 | #356 |
| 1941 | — | — | 271 | #356 |
| 1940 | — | — | 300 | #331 |
| 1939 | — | — | 284 | #328 |
| 1938 | — | — | 299 | #318 |
| 1937 | — | — | 294 | #313 |
| 1936 | — | — | 303 | #306 |
| 1935 | — | — | 278 | #327 |
| 1934 | — | — | 269 | #332 |
| 1933 | — | — | 267 | #329 |
| 1932 | — | — | 269 | #335 |
| 1931 | — | — | 252 | #346 |
| 1930 | — | — | 279 | #333 |
| 1929 | — | — | 275 | #334 |
| 1928 | — | — | 241 | #378 |
| 1927 | — | — | 283 | #344 |
| 1926 | — | — | 313 | #322 |
| 1925 | — | — | 303 | #332 |
| 1924 | — | — | 276 | #357 |
| 1923 | — | — | 292 | #343 |
| 1922 | — | — | 309 | #330 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,779 | 323 | #328 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,666 | 382 | #287 |
| 1919 | — | — | 431 | #256 |
| 1918 | — | — | 409 | #263 |
| 1917 | — | — | 264 | #339 |
| 1916 | — | — | 263 | #327 |
| 1915 | — | — | 322 | #273 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,914 | 401 | #206 |
| 1913 | — | — | 207 | #267 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,197 | 165 | #277 |
| 1911 | — | — | 89 | #278 |
| 1910 | — | — | 136 | #193 |
| 1909 | — | — | 139 | #175 |
| 1908 | — | — | 58 | #286 |
| 1907 | — | — | 34 | #386 |
| 1906 | — | — | 39 | #332 |
| 1905 | — | — | 37 | #332 |
| 1904 | — | — | 19 | #503 |
| 1903 | — | — | 12 | #679 |
| 1902 | — | — | 16 | #547 |
| 1901 | — | — | 17 | #481 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,243 |
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).