Ermelinda
Ermelinda is a name with multiple cultural origins: Italian, Portuguese.
- Italian
- Portuguese
Meaning & Origin of Ermelinda
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Ermelinda is a name with multiple cultural origins: Italian, Portuguese.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Italian
- Portuguese
The Story of Ermelinda
Ermelinda first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1912, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1964: 41 births, good for #1,837 nationwide. About 21% of every Ermelinda on record arrived during the 1960s, its defining decade. Ermelinda last appeared in the published SSA data in 2019, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 1K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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About the name Ermelinda
Ermelinda is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1912 and has accumulated 1K births in the dataset. Ermelinda's peak popularity came in 1964 when it ranked #1,837. Use the chart and map above to compare Ermelinda's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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