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Armin

#2,038 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Arminius

Armin has been given to 3,317 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #2,038 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 84 recorded.

Babies named Armin, 2025

1 in 45,400

Armin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Armin: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Arminius

German and Latin

What Armin means

Armin is a form of Arminius.

Origin, language, and formation

Armin is used in English, Estonian, French and German. Its origins include German and Latin.

Armin comes through German Armin and Latin Arminius.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arminius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Armin is pronounced /aʁ.mɛ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,317 boys were recorded with the name Armin between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 84 in 2023; its best national rank was #884 in 1914.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,469 in 2020 to #2,038 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,170 in 2015 to #2,038 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Armin?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 45,400
73 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 23,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,038
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
31,479 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Armin sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 31,479 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Armin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Armins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Armin was born before 1995 — so the typical Armin is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
17.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,313
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 17.3% of all recorded uses (575).

Is Armin rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−67
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+431
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+132
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.9%
Peak was 2023 (84)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#884
1914

Spellings of Armin

Armin is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 22.6% against Armin's 0.24%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Armin is used

Across 2016–2025, Armin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 25,012 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Virginia1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Armin around the world

Where Armin ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2011
    #375
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    2002–2022
    #779
    in 2022
  • France
    1942–2025
    #2,152
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #417
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,037
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Armin

People whose public names include Armin, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Armin in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Armin. Linked forms have their own page here.

ArnimArmineHermanArminio

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Armin by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,038
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 431
Best rank ever
#884
1914
Peak year
2023
84 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,317
Count in 2025
73

Names similar to Armin

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArmonArmanArmenArmaanArmondJaminArmoniAminArmandArmaniFerminArmelRaminOsminArmiasArmanyArmorMominArmourArmondoYaminEminJayminLamin

Names with a curve like Armin

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Armin, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AlphaNileHamptonHanselRansomThompsonElderNolenJhonMaceoLeopoldHolland

Sibling names for Armin

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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