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Fermin

#3,879 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Firminus

Fermin has been given to 4,832 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #3,879 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 86 recorded.

Babies named Fermin, 2025

1 in 118,000

Fermin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fermin: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Firminus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fermin means

Fermin is a form of Firminus.

Origin, language, and formation

Fermin is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Firminus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,832 boys were recorded with the name Fermin between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 86 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,008 in 1949.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,516 in 2020 to #3,879 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,876 in 2015 to #3,879 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 Fermin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,879
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fermin 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fermin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fermins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fermin was born before 1982 — so the typical Fermin is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
15.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,859
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 15.8% of all recorded uses (765).

Is Fermin 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
−157
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−363
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,003
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.6%
Peak was 1993 (86)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,008
1949

Spellings of Fermin

Fermin is not the most common spelling — Herman is, with 44.8% against Fermin's 1.6%.

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 Fermin is used

Across 1910–2025, Fermin was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 22,976 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 5,556
  2. 2Texas1 in 9,091
  3. 3California1 in 14,286
  4. 4Arizona1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Colorado1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

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. Fermin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fermin around the world

Where Fermin 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
    1963–1968
    #1,547
    in 1968
  • South Australia
    1965–1965
    #574
    in 1965

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Fermin in other languages

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

Firminus

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

Fermin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,879
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 363
Best rank ever
#1,008
1949
Peak year
1993
86 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,832
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Fermin

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

FerrisFermanFergusJaminArminFerdinandFerrellFerasAminFernandJayminFerranFerrelFernieRaminBinyominDezminOsminFermonFerlinBinyaminFerdieDesminFernando

Names with a curve like Fermin

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

CorwinHilarioReymundoReyesClementeAbelardoRosendoLeopoldoEugenioWillyErasmoSamual

Sibling names for Fermin

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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