Given name
Ermelinda
“one who is complete; universal”
Ermelinda is a variant of Erma. One German interpretation is “one who is complete; universal.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ermelinda is a variant of Erma. One German interpretation is “one who is complete; universal.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Ermelinda is a variant of Erma. An origin associated with Erma is German.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Built from Old High German *irmin + lind (“gentle, mild”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ermelinda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,374
- 0 boys · 1,374 girls
- Most popular year
- 1964
- 41 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 41 in 1964. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,951 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ermelinda’s family of names
Ermelinda has a related form in Erma.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ermelinda
- Ermelinda MeksiAlbanian politicianborn 1957
- ErmelindeBrabantine Christian nun and saint510–590
- Ermelinda De FeliceItalian actress (1915-1981)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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