Ermias
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ermias is a given name, most frequently recorded in Eritrea, where it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ethiopian: name referring to Jeremiah.
- EREritrea1 in 23◐
- USUnited States1 in 305K
- ETEthiopia1 in 6.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.5K ●
- Sources
- 123 ●
- 1 in 29K ◐
across 8 countries
5.6K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Ethiopian: name referring to Jeremiah.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ER Eritrea | #4 | 1,818 | 7 rec. | — | 1.8K | Ermias | 11 |
| US United States | — | 1,090 | 3.2K rec. | 1 in 305K | 1.1K | Ermias | 123 |
| ET Ethiopia | #468 | 635 | 575 rec. | — | — | Ermias | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 356△ | 129 rec. | 1 in 29K | 356 | Ermias | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 275 | 225 rec. | — | — | Ermias | 29 |
| PE Peru | — | 202 | 170 rec. | — | — | Ermias | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | 191 | 182 rec. | — | — | Ermias | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | 145 | 90 rec. | — | 4 | Ermias | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 134 | 181 rec. | — | — | Ermias | 7 |
| EG Egypt | — | 89 | 96 rec. | — | — | Ermias | 4 |
| AU Australia | — | 78 | 67 rec. | — | 1 | Ermias | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 54 | 66 rec. | — | 28 | Ermias | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English2.5K25%
- Arabic2K20%
- 1K10%
- German9009%
- Indonesian6717%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,528 | 25% |
| Arabic | 2,030 | 20% |
| 1,019 | 10% | |
| German | 900 | 9% |
| Indonesian | 671 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 25 |
| 2000 | 27 |
| 2001 | 28 |
| 2002 | 29 |
| 2003 | 31 |
| 2004 | 33 |
| 2005 | 37 |
| 2006 | 44 |
| 2007 | 51 |
| 2008 | 53 |
| 2009 | 63 |
| 2010 | 71 |
| 2011 | 74 |
| 2012 | 76 |
| 2013 | 78 |
| 2014 | 103 |
| 2015 | 119 |
| 2016 | 141 |
| 2017 | 161 |
| 2018 | 168 |
| 2019 | 181 |
| 2020 | 193 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ermias Kifleyesusb. 1974ETEthiopian artist (born 1974)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ER Eritrea | The page presents a list of the most popular baby names in Eritrea, published by Names.org. | 1880 | 1.8K | #4 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,606 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 523 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 415 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 356 | #3,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 296 | #71,105 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 296 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 288 | #3,667 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 265 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 243 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 228 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 193 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ermias?
- We estimate roughly 1.5 thousand people bear Ermias (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ermias have the most bearers?
- Ermias is most frequently recorded in Eritrea, where it is most often spelled ermias.
- How common is Ermias compared with other names?
- In Eritrea, Ermias is the 4th most common given name of 73 given names recorded there.
- Is Ermias a male or female name?
- Ermias is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ermias mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ethiopian: name referring to Jeremiah.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ermias” — the 4th most common given name in Eritrea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.