Jerlene vs Jermaine
American parents have registered 42,994 Jermaines since 1880, against 924 Jerlenes. Jermaine is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Jerlene Jermaine
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 104 years in which either name was published, Jermaine for 61 years and Jerlene for 43 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.
Side by side
| Jerlene | Jermaine | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 924 | 42,994 |
| Most in one year | 38 | 2,097 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 118 |
| Estimated living today | 440 | 41,000 |
| Median age today | 77 | 41 |
| Peak year | 1947 | 1973 |
| Best rank | 1,525th girls | 127th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 1,492nd |
| First recorded | 1915 | 1923 |
| Girls / boys | 924 / 0 | 967 / 42,027 |
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 Jerlenes alive today are over 77; half the Jermaines are over 41. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Jerlene Arkansas (12.5×), North Carolina (6.8×), Texas (3.6×)
- Jermaine the District of Columbia (3.3×), Louisiana (2.8×), South Carolina (2.5×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jerlene and Jermaine.