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Ermias

#1,146 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jeremiah

Ermias has been given to 2,251 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #1,146 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 523 recorded.

Babies named Ermias, 2025

1 in 18,000

Ermias over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ermias: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jeremiah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ermias means

Ermias is a form of Jeremiah.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ermias → Jeremiah. The family’s meaning is “Yahweh exalt”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jeremiah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,245 boys were recorded with the name Ermias between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 523 in 2019; its best national rank was #540 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #645 in 2020 to #1,146 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,244 in 2015 to #1,146 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Ermias between 2019 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2019; its best national rank was #14,326 in 2019.

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 Ermias?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,000
184 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,280
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,146
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,490 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ermias 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 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,490 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ermias. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ermiass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ermias was born before 2021 — so the typical Ermias is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
72.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,245
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 72.7% of all recorded uses (1,631).

Is Ermias 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
−160
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−501
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+7,098
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
20.44×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.2%
Peak was 2019 (523)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
240.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#540
2019

Spellings of Ermias

Ermias is not the most common spelling — Elias is, with 89.2% against Ermias's 1.5%.

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 Ermias is used

Across 2016–2025, Ermias was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 2,778 boys, against 1 in 7,580 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in 33,333).

336 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 2,778
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 3,125
  3. 3Arizona1 in 4,545
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 5,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 5,263
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 5,556
  7. 7New York1 in 6,250
  8. 8California1 in 6,667

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.

Ermias around the world

Where Ermias 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
    2014–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ermias by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,146
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 501
Best rank ever
#540
2019
Peak year
2019
523 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,245
Count in 2025
184

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#14,326
2019
Peak year
2019
6 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ermias

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

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Names with a curve like Ermias

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ermias, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ermias

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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