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Jermaine vs Jerrick

American parents have registered 42,994 Jermaines since 1880, against 2,106 Jerricks. Jermaine is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jermaine Jerrick

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 75 years in which either name was published, Jermaine for 72 years and Jerrick for 3 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jermaine Jerrick
Total US births 42,9942,106
Most in one year 2,09773
Babies in 2025 1189
Estimated living today 41,0002,000
Median age today 4128
Peak year 19731989
Best rank 127th boys1,268th boys
Rank in 2025 1,492nd8,243rd
First recorded 19231966
Girls / boys 967 / 42,0270 / 2,106

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 Jermaines alive today are over 41; half the Jerricks are over 28. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Jermaine and Jerrick.