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Fermina

Girls' name

Form of Firmina

Fermina has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1924, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Fermina, 2024

1 in 669,000

Fermina over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fermina: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Firmina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fermina means

Fermina is a form of Firmina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Fermina is used in Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /feɾ.ˈmi.na/ for Fermina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Firmina.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Fermina is pronounced /feɾˈmina/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 girls were recorded with the name Fermina between 1913 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,866 in 1924.

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 Fermina?

Fermina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fermina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fermina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ferminas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fermina was born before 1944 — so the typical Fermina is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
97
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1920s — 25.9% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Fermina 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 1924 (12)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,866
1924

Spellings of Fermina

Fermina is not the most common spelling — Serina is, with 26.8% against Fermina's 0.97%.

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 Fermina is used

Across 1910–2025, Fermina was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,023,410 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Fermina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Fermina around the world

Where Fermina 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
    1928–1969
    #2,124
    in 1969

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

Fermina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,866
1924
Peak year
1924
12 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Fermina

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

FergieFerrisLorainaJaylinaAnalinaMacrinaJalainaAllainaPaolinaMerlinaEmalinaFerrahFerrellSukainaSophinaEmilinaKarlinaSunainaMilainaBellinaMellinaYostinaYazminaFlorina

Sibling names for Fermina

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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