as a First Name
Mainly U.S.: of Irish and Manx origin, from the Gaelic surname form Mac Dhiarmaid ‘son of Diarmaid’ (see Dermot). The name was borne by a son of the American president Theodore Roosevelt, and by a frog puppet, created in the 1970s for Jim Henson's Muppet Show.
| 1,781st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,812
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 12,260
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Kermit per capita
- 1914
- marked the height of its popularity
0%
100%
77%
55+
55+
23%
30-54
30-54
0.45%
13-29
13-29
0%
0-12
0-12
Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
Top Twitterers with this name
Claim your spot as the most influential Kermit!
Tweet #wpnames to get on this list.
