Erma

Where Erma comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Erma.

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Erma through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #282 among girls, with 30 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1911
    Peak, #138
    595 babies named Erma, its best rank.
  3. 1927
    Erma Bombeck born
    American humorist and writer
  4. 1938
    Erma Franklin born
    American musician, gospel and soul singer
  5. 1959
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #607.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Irma.
Namesakes
  • Erma Bombeck · American humorist and writer, 1927–1996
  • Erma Franklin · American musician, gospel and soul singer, 1938–2002
  • Erma Sulistianingsih · Indonesian badminton player, born 1965
  • Erma Elzy-Jones · American director
  • Erma Bergmann · All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player, 1924–2015

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.