Erma
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#5,292
up +2,418 places
2025 births
24
up +10 births
All-time births
54,949
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1920
- 1,529 births
- Best rank
- #138
- in 1911
- First recorded
- 1880
- #284 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1929
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 19201,529#152Peak
- 19211,525#158
- 19191,497#147
- 19251,490#162
- 19261,485#157
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #138 in 1911 · peak births 1,529 in 1920
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 0% boys■ 100% girls
238 boys · 54,949 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Erma has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.