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Momin

#5,144 in 2025Boys' name

Faithful, through مومِن

Momin has been given to 331 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #5,144 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Momin, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Momin: meaning, origin, and history

Faithful, through مومِن

Urdu

What Momin means

Momin belongs to the name family reached through Momin → مومِن. Its meaning is “faithful”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Urdu مومِن (momin), borrowed from Classical Persian مُؤْمِن (mu'min), borrowed from Arabic مُؤْمِن (muʔmin), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). Doublet of mu'min.

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Momin is used in English. Its origins include Urdu.

Momin comes through Urdu مومِن and Indonesian believer.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include مومِن.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 331 boys were recorded with the name Momin between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2020; its best national rank was #4,101 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,101 in 2020 to #5,144 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,285 in 2015 to #5,144 in 2025.

How common is Momin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 89,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,144
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Momin 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Momin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Momins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Momin was born before 2014 — so the typical Momin is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
331
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (123).

Is Momin 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
+3,613
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,043
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,141
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.0%
Peak was 2020 (25)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
47.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,101
2020

Spellings of Momin

Momin is not the most common spelling — Colin is, with 36.6% against Momin's 0.09%.

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 Momin is used

Across 1910–2025, Momin was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,934,666 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Momin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Momin around the world

Where Momin 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
    #1,276
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #711
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Momin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,144
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,043
Best rank ever
#4,101
2020
Peak year
2020
25 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
331
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Momin

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

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Sibling names for Momin

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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