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Ermelinda

Girls' name

Form of Ermelinde

Ermelinda has been given to 1,374 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1964, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Ermelinda, 2019

1 in 496,000

Ermelinda over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ermelinda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ermelinde

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ermelinda means

Ermelinda is a form of Ermelinde.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ermelinda is used in Italian and Portuguese.

Origin, language, and formation

Ermelinda is used in Old High German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ermelinde.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,374 girls were recorded with the name Ermelinda between 1912 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,675 in 1930.

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 Ermelinda?

Ermelinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 496,000
7 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 240,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
343,825 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ermelinda 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 2019 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 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ermelinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ermelindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ermelinda was born before 1961 — so the typical Ermelinda is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
945
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1960s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (283).

Is Ermelinda 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 1964 (41)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,675
1930

Spellings of Ermelinda

Ermelinda is not the most common spelling — Melinda is, with 93.9% against Ermelinda's 0.95%.

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 Ermelinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Ermelinda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 86,703 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 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. Ermelinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ermelinda around the world

Where Ermelinda 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.

  • France
    1906–1995
    #3,148
    in 1995
  • South Australia
    1968–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ermelinda 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
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Best rank ever
#1,675
1930
Peak year
1964
41 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
1,374
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ermelinda

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

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Sibling names for Ermelinda

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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