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Ermal

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Wind + mountain

Ermal has been given to 603 babies in the U.S. since 1899. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 23 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 57% girls, 43% boys all-time.

Babies named Ermal, 1939

1 in 315,000

Ermal over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ermal over time

In 2008, Ermal went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18992008

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ermal: meaning, origin, and history

Wind + mountain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ermal means

Ermal means “wind + mountain”, associated with erë and mal.

Origin, language, and formation

Ermal is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 342 girls were recorded with the name Ermal between 1899 and 1939. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1916; its best national rank was #1,180 in 1906.

In the United States, 261 boys were recorded with the name Ermal between 1909 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,522 in 1909.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ermal?

Ermal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1939, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1939
1 in 315,000
7 of 2,203,433 births
Among girls only
1 in 157,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1939
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
218,187 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ermal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1939 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 218,187 children born in 1939 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ermal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ermals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ermal was born before 1919 — so the typical Ermal is around 106 today.

Median birth year
1919
About 106 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
35.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Ermal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (23)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,180
1906

Spellings of Ermal

Ermal is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 80.0% against Ermal's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ermal is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Ermal was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 716,077 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ermal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Ermal is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Ermal was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 274,023 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 100,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ermal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ermal around the world

Where Ermal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • France
    2007–2012
    #6,620
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ermal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,180
1906
Peak year
1916
23 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
1939
All-time count
342
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,522
1909
Peak year
1920
17 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
261
Count in 2025
Under 5

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ermal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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