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Jermaine vs Jerolyn

American parents have registered 42,994 Jermaines since 1880, against 544 Jerolyns. Jermaine is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jermaine Jerolyn

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 100 years in which either name was published, Jermaine for 61 years and Jerolyn for 39 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jermaine Jerolyn
Total US births 42,994544
Most in one year 2,09735
Babies in 2025 118under 5
Estimated living today 41,000370
Median age today 4170
Peak year 19731954
Best rank 127th boys1,739th girls
Rank in 2025 1,492ndunranked
First recorded 19231927
Girls / boys 967 / 42,027544 / 0

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 Jerolyns alive today are over 70; half the Jermaines are over 41. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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