Girl
Erma
The name Erma carries the meaning "Germanic irmin, whole, universal", with roots in Germanic. It belongs mostly to the 1920s at this point. These days, it is neither rare nor overly common. 1920 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
EtymologyVariant of Irma
GermanicGermanic "irmin" – "whole, universal"
Births by decade
1900s
3,623
1910s
11,016
1920s
14,328
1930s
9,776
1940s
6,580
1950s
3,920
1960s
1,718
1970s
639
1980s
388
1990s
231
2000s
214
2010s
141
Peaked in the 1920s · 52,574 total U.S. births since 1900