Meaning and history
From a rare Americanized Manx surname, a variant of the Irish surname Mac Diarmada, which comes from the given name Diarmaid. This was the name of a son of Theodore Roosevelt born in 1889, who was named for a relative of his mother, Robert Kermit. The name is now associated with Kermit the Frog, a Muppet created by puppeteer Jim Henson in 1955.
20062006: 13 births, rank #6,094
2007: 10 births, rank #7,590
2008: 7 births, rank #9,871
2009: 12 births, rank #6,802
2010: 8 births, rank #8,803
20112011: 6 births, rank #10,808
2012: 7 births, rank #9,709
2013: 7 births, rank #9,655
2014: 13 births, rank #6,307
2015: 7 births, rank #9,568
20162016: no US SSA record for this spelling
2017: 5 births, rank #12,246
2018: 10 births, rank #7,617
2019: no US SSA record for this spelling
2020: no US SSA record for this spelling
20212021: no US SSA record for this spelling
2022: 6 births, rank #10,863
2023: no US SSA record for this spelling
2024: no US SSA record for this spelling
20252025: 6 births, rank #10,695
Kermit moved from #908 to #994 for boys between 1976 and 1978. Its highest annual birth count came in 1919, with 431 births.