Kermit

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A given name from Manx.
• The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson.
• An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe.
• city, county seat Winkler County (county) Texas (state), named after Kermit Roosevelt.
• town West Virginia (state), named after Kermit Roosevelt.

Origin

• Variant of English and Manx Kermode, cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata. Popularised in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor).
• Computing sense named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").