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Jermaine vs Jermane

American parents have registered 42,994 Jermaines since 1880, against 723 Jermanes. Jermaine is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jermaine against Jermane, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jermaine Jermane

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

Jermaine has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1923 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1991, when Jermaine had 743 and Jermane had 22.

Side by side

  Jermaine Jermane
Total US births 42,994723
Most in one year 2,09743
Babies in 2025 118under 5
Estimated living today 41,000680
Median age today 4141
Peak year 19731980
Best rank 127th boys1,449th boys
Rank in 2025 1,492ndunranked
First recorded 19231971
Girls / boys 967 / 42,0270 / 723

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.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jermaine and Jermane.