girls:
6 births since 2019
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1999
#2919 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1999
#5919 (24th percentile)
The name Ermias is the #5,919 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,837 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 23.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,919 (36.3% percentile) for all time with 1,831 births since 1999. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2019.
Ermias first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 (1999 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Ermias is available in 18 out of the 25 years between 1999 and 2023 (18 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Ermias has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ermias reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 47.4% percentile (ranked #483) with 272 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 272 births per million (ranked 47.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ermias ranks #675 for boys (25.9% percentile) with 133 births per million, which is 48.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ermias reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #944) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ermias".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ermias. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.4% confident that Ermias is pronounced as er-MEE-uhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is er-MAI-uhs, at 11.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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