Kermit
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Meaning
surname derived from Irish Diarmaid via the surname MacDermott/Kermode
How popular is Kermit around the world?
In the United States, 12 babies were named Kermit between 2020 and 2025.
Kermit is on the official records of the United States.
United States
1 in 1.8M
In the United States, 12 babies were named Kermit between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kermit peaked in the 1900s and the 1950s in nearly equal measure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Puerto Rico
last on record 2007
Kermit is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 33 babies have carried the name there since 1998.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Kermit
People given the name Kermit in the United States span the generations: the middle half were born anywhere from 1940 to 1979. Age is the one thing the name won't tell you.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Kermit deep dive
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