girls:
27 births since 1912
#5689 (0th percentile)
boys:
16.4k births since 1900
#901 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.5k births since 1900
#2015 (74th percentile)
The name Kermit is the #2,015 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,467 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 74.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #901 (80.4% percentile) for all time with 16,440 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1912.
Kermit first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Kermit is available in 119 out of the 123 years between 1900 and 2022 (119 years for boys and 5 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 Kermit has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kermit reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 57.1% percentile (ranked #196) with 587 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 786 births per million (ranked 42.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Kermit reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #604) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1943.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kermit".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kermit. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.5% confident that Kermit is pronounced as KER-miht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KER-muht, at 22.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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