Ermine

Where Ermine comes from

Ermine hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1871
    Ermine Cowles Case born
    American paleontologist
  2. 1883
    Debut at its peak, #817
    #817 among girls with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1959
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Ermine Cowles Case · American paleontologist, 1871–1953

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.