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Ermin

Boys' name

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Ermin has been given to 157 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Ermin, 2015

1 in 740,000

Ermin over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ermin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning unconfirmed; recorded in an 1884 name reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ermin means

Ermin is a given name.

The naming story behind Ermin

Charlotte M. Yonge’s 1884 History of Christian Names includes the exact spelling Ermin in its glossary. The entry labels it feminine and points to printed page(s) 147.

The glossary’s abbreviated description reads: “Welsh, Lat. lordly”. This is the historical author’s wording, including its language abbreviations and any proposed interpretation. It is presented as historical evidence, not as a verified modern translation. Victorian classifications and root explanations can differ from later linguistic research.

For Ermin, the current short meaning therefore remains unconfirmed. Establishing its modern etymology requires a current reference that documents the exact form and its relationship to the proposed earlier words.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 157 boys were recorded with the name Ermin between 1915 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,328 in 1917.

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.

How common is Ermin?

Ermin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ermin 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 2015 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ermin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ermins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ermin was born before 2000 — so the typical Ermin is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
91
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Ermin 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (12)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,328
1917

Spellings of Ermin

Ermin is not the most common spelling — Eric is, with 48.3% against Ermin's <0.01%.

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.

Ermin around the world

Where Ermin 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.

  • France
    1986–2020
    #6,940
    in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ermin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,328
1917
Peak year
2006
12 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
157
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ermin

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

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Sibling names for Ermin

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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