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Firmin

Boys' name

Firm

Firmin has been given to 97 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 1928, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Firmin, 1942

1 in 546,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Firmin: meaning, origin, and history

Firm

Latin

What Firmin means

Firmin means “firm”, associated with firmus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Firminus, name of early Christian saints, derivative of firmus (“firm”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Firmin (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Firmin is used in English and Norman. Its origins include Latin.

Firmin comes through Latin Firminus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 97 boys were recorded with the name Firmin between 1913 and 1942. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1928; its best national rank was #2,310 in 1928.

How common is Firmin?

Firmin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1942, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1942
1 in 546,000
5 of 2,731,825 births
Among boys only
1 in 276,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1942
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
378,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Firmin 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 1942 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 378,713 children born in 1942 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Firmin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Firmins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Firmin was born before 1926 — so the typical Firmin is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
50.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 50.5% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Firmin 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 1928 (13)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,310
1928

Spellings of Firmin

Firmin is not the most common spelling — Irvin is, with 58.0% against Firmin's 0.14%.

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.

Firmin around the world

Where Firmin 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
    1900–2025
    #1,145
    in 2025

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

Firmin 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
#2,310
1928
Peak year
1928
13 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1942
All-time count
97
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Firmin

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

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Sibling names for Firmin

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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