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Erminia

Girls' name

Feminine form of Herminius

Erminia has been given to 1,497 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1923, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Erminia, 2006

1 in 495,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erminia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Herminius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erminia means

Erminia is a feminine form of Herminius.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Erminia is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /er.ˈmi.nja/ for Erminia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Herminius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,497 girls were recorded with the name Erminia between 1895 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,243 in 1928.

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.

How common is Erminia?

Erminia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 495,000
8 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 238,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
342,777 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erminia 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 2006 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 342,777 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erminia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erminias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erminia was born before 1935 — so the typical Erminia is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
437
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 23.2% of all recorded uses (348).

Is Erminia 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (39)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,243
1928

Spellings of Erminia

Erminia is not the most common spelling — Emilia is, with 79.7% against Erminia's 1.7%.

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 Erminia is used

Across 1910–2025, Erminia was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 93,401 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 14,286
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 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. Erminia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Erminia around the world

Where Erminia 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
    1912–1975
    #2,705
    in 1975
  • South Australia
    1953–1985
    #671
    in 1985

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.

Erminia 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
#1,243
1928
Peak year
1923
39 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
1,497
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Erminia

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

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Sibling names for Erminia

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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