Kermit
Kermit is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 175th, in 1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1919431 births
- Best rank
- #175in 1909
- Since 1900
- 16,440people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,440 boys have been named Kermit in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 431 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 431 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 77 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Kermit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 377 | |
| 1910s | 2,687 | |
| 1920s | 2,997 | |
| 1930s | 2,794 | |
| 1940s | 2,654 | |
| 1950s | 1,965 | |
| 1960s | 1,442 | |
| 1970s | 842 | |
| 1980s | 337 | |
| 1990s | 176 | |
| 2000s | 100 | |
| 2010s | 63 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Kermit was the 256th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Kermit
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Johneypeak 1919
- Arnepeak 1916
- Pasqualepeak 1917
- Dewardpeak 1924
- Farrispeak 1923
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Foypeak 1921
- Odellpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.