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Erman

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Erman has been given to 652 babies in the U.S. since 1897. 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 1915, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Erman, 1975

1 in 604,000

Erman over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erman: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erman means

Erman is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Erman is used in Turkish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Erman is pronounced /æɾˈmɑn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 652 boys were recorded with the name Erman between 1897 and 1975. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,113 in 1897.

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 Erman?

Erman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1975, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1975
1 in 604,000
5 of 3,019,126 births
Among boys only
1 in 312,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1975
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
418,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erman sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1975 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 418,541 children born in 1975 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ermans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erman was born before 1928 — so the typical Erman is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
84
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1920s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (193).

Is Erman 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 1915 (26)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,113
1897

Spellings of Erman

Erman is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 28.3% against Erman's 0.02%.

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 Erman is used

Across 1910–2025, Erman was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 318,575 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 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. Erman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Erman around the world

Where Erman 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
    2013–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • France
    1978–2021
    #4,877
    in 2021

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.

Erman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,113
1897
Peak year
1915
26 that year
First recorded
1897
Last recorded
1975
All-time count
652
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Erman

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

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Sibling names for Erman

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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