Fermin
Fermin was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,879 among boys’ names; 4,832 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,690 Americans named Fermin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (76% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 22 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Fermin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Fermin?
#3,879 among boys’ names, 2025
Fermin fell from #2,876 in 2015 to #3,879 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.4 to 16.4 per million.
86 babies in 1993, the peak
Fermin peaked in 1993, when 86 boys were given it, #1,216 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,879 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,722 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,739 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,641 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,047 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,516 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 36 | #3,214 | 20.1 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,122 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,144 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,080 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,876 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,856 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 38 | #2,969 | 20.1 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,973 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,069 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,479 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 54 | #2,385 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,190 | 29.9 |
| 2007 | 78 | #1,852 | 37.6 |
| 2006 | 82 | #1,715 | 39.9 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,138 | 28.5 |
| 2004 | 66 | #1,857 | 33.2 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,940 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,923 | 29.9 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,822 | 31.4 |
| 2000 | 69 | #1,667 | 35.1 |
| 1999 | 77 | #1,478 | 40.1 |
| 1998 | 81 | #1,407 | 42.4 |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,424 | 40.3 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,619 | 31.7 |
| 1995 | 63 | #1,511 | 33.1 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,252 | 44.5 |
| 1993 | 86 | #1,216 | 43.8 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,318 | 36.5 |
| 1991 | 83 | #1,212 | 41.1 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,223 | 38.9 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,347 | 33.0 |
| 1988 | 58 | #1,355 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,343 | 29.5 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,231 | 33.1 |
| 1985 | 52 | #1,335 | 28.1 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,449 | 24.4 |
| 1983 | 59 | #1,183 | 32.9 |
| 1982 | 62 | #1,165 | 34.2 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,103 | 38.0 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,182 | 33.6 |
| 1979 | 49 | #1,329 | 28.5 |
| 1978 | 46 | #1,354 | 28.0 |
| 1977 | 46 | #1,345 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 44 | #1,338 | 28.0 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,119 | 36.5 |
| 1974 | 64 | #1,028 | 40.7 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,226 | 29.5 |
| 1972 | 43 | #1,269 | 26.5 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,279 | 24.3 |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,021 | 34.4 |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,208 | 24.0 |
| 1968 | 42 | #1,171 | 24.2 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,261 | 20.6 |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,221 | 21.3 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,046 | 26.9 |
| 1964 | 42 | #1,189 | 21.1 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,260 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 33 | #1,371 | 16.0 |
| 1961 | 43 | #1,210 | 20.2 |
| 1960 | 26 | #1,596 | 12.2 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,142 | 21.6 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,284 | 17.0 |
| 1957 | 47 | #1,120 | 21.8 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,399 | 14.7 |
| 1955 | 42 | #1,155 | 20.4 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,295 | 16.7 |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,196 | 19.8 |
| 1952 | 40 | #1,173 | 20.6 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,176 | 20.2 |
| 1950 | 47 | #1,027 | 26.3 |
| 1949 | 48 | #1,008 | 27.1 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,265 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 35 | #1,239 | 19.1 |
| 1946 | 31 | #1,267 | 19.1 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,062 | 27.5 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,375 | 17.6 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,321 | 19.6 |
| 1942 | 36 | #1,148 | 26.1 |
| 1941 | 15 | #1,842 | 12.2 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,649 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,246 | 25.3 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,349 | 22.5 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,273 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,303 | 25.1 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,434 | 22.1 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,437 | 22.3 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,666 | 18.2 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,947 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,344 | 26.0 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,221 | 31.0 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,061 | 39.0 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,396 | 25.3 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,255 | 30.2 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,750 | 18.0 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,340 | 26.9 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,798 | 17.7 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,774 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,204 | 33.1 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,401 | 26.3 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,395 | 26.3 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,772 | 19.4 |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,779 | 18.7 |
| 1917 | 14 | #2,120 | 15.1 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,080 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,729 | 20.0 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,459 | 27.5 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,224 | 35.1 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,662 | 23.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,676 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Fermin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Fermin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 115 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Fermin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Fermin, and how old are they?
3,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 76% of the 4,832 Americans ever recorded as Fermin. The median Fermin alive today is 35 years old; half are between 22 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 9,361 people named Fermin (42 women and girls, 9,319 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,711 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 92 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 482 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 682 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 988 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 441 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Fermin born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,886 | 2.4× |
Where Fermin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Fermin is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1910 it was given 5.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Fermin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,472 babies since 1880, Fermin is the most given (75% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 36 babies (78%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Fermin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Fermin and names like it
- Compare Fermin and FermanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sFermin peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Fermin since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Fermin.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Fermin alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with FMost given first.