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Jermaine vs Jerron

American parents have registered 42,994 Jermaines since 1880, against 1,750 Jerrons. Jermaine is still ahead, with 118 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jermaine Jerron

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 77 years in which either name was published, Jermaine for 72 years and Jerron for 5 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Jermaine Jerron
Total US births 42,9941,750
Most in one year 2,09763
Babies in 2025 1186
Estimated living today 41,0001,700
Median age today 4131
Peak year 19731989
Best rank 127th boys1,382nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,492nd10,695th
First recorded 19231960
Girls / boys 967 / 42,0270 / 1,750

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 Jerrons are over 31. That is 10 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 Jerron.