Meaning not yet researched.
Fermin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,009 in 1949.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,009 in 1949; #3,880 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fermin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,880 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1949, at #1,009.
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Fermin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,009 in 1949 · most boys in one year: 86 (1994).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Fermin, making it the 3,880th most common boys’ name of the year, down 156 places from #3,724 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 30 boys named Fermin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,009, reached in 1949. The most boys given the name in a single year was 86, in 1994. For comparison, it was #2,877 in 2015 and #1,028 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fermin in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1910 with 5 babies. In all, 4,832 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 765 babies named Fermin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 324 US boys were named Fermin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Ferman, Fermon and Firman are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ferman (1,383), Fermon (257), Firman (199), Firmin (97), Fermen (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Fermin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 28 | #3,880 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,724 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,742 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,643 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,051 |
| 2020 | — | — | 31 | #3,518 |
| 2019 | — | — | 36 | #3,217 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,125 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,145 |
| 2016 | — | — | 38 | #3,081 |
| 2015 | — | — | 41 | #2,877 |
| 2014 | — | — | 41 | #2,858 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,971 |
| 2012 | — | — | 39 | #2,975 |
| 2011 | — | — | 37 | #3,070 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,480 |
| 2009 | — | — | 54 | #2,386 |
| 2008 | — | — | 61 | #2,191 |
| 2007 | — | — | 78 | #1,852 |
| 2006 | — | — | 82 | #1,715 |
| 2005 | — | — | 57 | #2,142 |
| 2004 | — | — | 66 | #1,861 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,944 |
| 2002 | — | — | 58 | #1,927 |
| 2001 | — | — | 61 | #1,826 |
| 2000 | — | — | 69 | #1,671 |
| 1999 | — | — | 77 | #1,481 |
| 1998 | — | — | 81 | #1,410 |
| 1997 | — | — | 76 | #1,427 |
| 1996 | — | — | 60 | #1,622 |
| 1995 | — | — | 63 | #1,516 |
| 1994 | — | — | 86 | #1,256 |
| 1993 | — | — | 86 | #1,221 |
| 1992 | — | — | 73 | #1,323 |
| 1991 | — | — | 83 | #1,218 |
| 1990 | — | — | 80 | #1,228 |
| 1989 | — | — | 66 | #1,352 |
| 1988 | — | — | 58 | #1,359 |
| 1987 | — | — | 55 | #1,345 |
| 1986 | — | — | 61 | #1,232 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,336 |
| 1984 | — | — | 44 | #1,450 |
| 1983 | — | — | 59 | #1,183 |
| 1982 | — | — | 62 | #1,166 |
| 1981 | — | — | 68 | #1,103 |
| 1980 | — | — | 60 | #1,182 |
| 1979 | — | — | 49 | #1,329 |
| 1978 | — | — | 46 | #1,354 |
| 1977 | — | — | 46 | #1,345 |
| 1976 | — | — | 44 | #1,338 |
| 1975 | — | — | 57 | #1,119 |
| 1974 | — | — | 64 | #1,028 |
| 1973 | — | — | 46 | #1,226 |
| 1972 | — | — | 43 | #1,269 |
| 1971 | — | — | 43 | #1,279 |
| 1970 | — | — | 64 | #1,021 |
| 1969 | — | — | 43 | #1,208 |
| 1968 | — | — | 42 | #1,171 |
| 1967 | — | — | 36 | #1,262 |
| 1966 | — | — | 38 | #1,222 |
| 1965 | — | — | 50 | #1,046 |
| 1964 | — | — | 42 | #1,190 |
| 1963 | — | — | 38 | #1,261 |
| 1962 | — | — | 33 | #1,372 |
| 1961 | — | — | 43 | #1,211 |
| 1960 | — | — | 26 | #1,597 |
| 1959 | — | — | 46 | #1,143 |
| 1958 | — | — | 36 | #1,285 |
| 1957 | — | — | 47 | #1,121 |
| 1956 | — | — | 31 | #1,400 |
| 1955 | — | — | 42 | #1,156 |
| 1954 | — | — | 34 | #1,296 |
| 1953 | — | — | 39 | #1,197 |
| 1952 | — | — | 40 | #1,174 |
| 1951 | — | — | 38 | #1,177 |
| 1950 | — | — | 47 | #1,028 |
| 1949 | — | — | 48 | #1,009 |
| 1948 | — | — | 33 | #1,266 |
| 1947 | — | — | 35 | #1,240 |
| 1946 | — | — | 31 | #1,268 |
| 1945 | — | — | 37 | #1,063 |
| 1944 | — | — | 24 | #1,376 |
| 1943 | — | — | 28 | #1,322 |
| 1942 | — | — | 36 | #1,148 |
| 1941 | — | — | 15 | #1,842 |
| 1940 | — | — | 18 | #1,649 |
| 1939 | — | — | 28 | #1,246 |
| 1938 | — | — | 25 | #1,349 |
| 1937 | — | — | 28 | #1,273 |
| 1936 | — | — | 26 | #1,303 |
| 1935 | — | — | 23 | #1,434 |
| 1934 | — | — | 23 | #1,437 |
| 1933 | — | — | 18 | #1,666 |
| 1932 | — | — | 15 | #1,947 |
| 1931 | — | — | 27 | #1,344 |
| 1930 | — | — | 34 | #1,221 |
| 1929 | — | — | 42 | #1,061 |
| 1928 | — | — | 28 | #1,396 |
| 1927 | — | — | 34 | #1,255 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,750 |
| 1925 | — | — | 30 | #1,340 |
| 1924 | — | — | 20 | #1,798 |
| 1923 | — | — | 20 | #1,775 |
| 1922 | — | — | 36 | #1,204 |
| 1921 | — | — | 29 | #1,401 |
| 1920 | — | — | 28 | #1,395 |
| 1919 | — | — | 19 | #1,773 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,780 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,121 |
| 1916 | — | — | 14 | #2,081 |
| 1915 | — | — | 17 | #1,730 |
| 1914 | — | — | 18 | #1,459 |
| 1913 | — | — | 18 | #1,224 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,663 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,677 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).