girls:
5 births since 1987
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1969
#3287 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1969
#6406 (17th percentile)
The name Jermel is the #6,406 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,337 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 17.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,287 (28.3% percentile) for all time with 1,332 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1987.
Jermel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1987 for girls). Birth data for Jermel is available in 53 out of the 53 years between 1969 and 2021 (53 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 Jermel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jermel reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 7.5% percentile (ranked #631) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 30 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Jermel reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #802) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jermel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jermel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.1% confident that Jermel is pronounced as jer-MEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JER-muhl, at 13.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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