Ermine vs Erminia

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Ermine Erminia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Erminia for 84 years and Ermine for 23 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

• 1883–1903 Ermine ahead
• 1904 Erminia ahead
• 1905–1907 Ermine ahead
• 1908–1909 Erminia ahead
• 1910 Ermine ahead
• 1911 Erminia ahead
• 1912–1914 Ermine ahead
• 1915–1916 Erminia ahead
• 1917 Ermine ahead
• 1918–2006 Erminia ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ermines alive today are over 82; half the Erminias are over 67. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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