Jermel
#11,260 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jermel has been given to 1,352 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #11,260 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 56 recorded.
Babies named Jermel, 2025
1 in 553,000
Jermel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Jermel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,260
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jermel sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jermel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jermels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jermel was born before 1987 — so the typical Jermel is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 33.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,347
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (445).
Is Jermel 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
- −2,631
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,181
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,404
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.40×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.7%
- Peak was 1981 (56)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.4% average annual change
Spellings of Jermel
Jermel is not the most common spelling — Jerome is, with 68.5% against Jermel's 0.57%.
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 Jermel is used
Across 1910–2025, Jermel was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 226,689 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 100,000
- 2New York1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6North Carolina1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8South Carolina1 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. Jermel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jermel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Jermel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jermel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.