boys:
2k births since 1970
#2811 (39th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1970
#5777 (25th percentile)
The name Jermain is the #5,777 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,995 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 25.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,811 (38.7% percentile) for all time with 1,995 births since 1970.
Jermain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (first recorded for boys in 1970). Birth data for Jermain is available in 51 out of the 51 years between 1970 and 2020. 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.
For boys, Jermain reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 14.5% percentile (ranked #583) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 58 births per million (ranked 13.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jermain".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jermain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.4% confident that Jermain is pronounced as jer-MAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JER-mayn, at 11.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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