Firman
Firman was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,104 among boys’ names; 199 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Firman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Firman?
#11,104 among boys’ names, 2025
Firman rose from #12,680 in 2015 to #11,104 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 3.5 per million.
11 babies in 1927, the peak
Firman peaked in 1927, when 11 boys were given it, #2,585 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,104 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,680 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,001 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,248 | 4.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,474 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,281 | 2.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,589 | 2.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,752 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,959 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,246 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 5 | #4,011 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,862 | 2.8 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,703 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,391 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,409 | 6.1 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,953 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,396 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,177 | 4.6 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,585 | 9.8 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,446 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,591 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,866 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,533 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,205 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,388 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,612 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,608 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,916 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,514 | 12.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,598 | 11.7 |
| 1880 | 5 | #959 | 45.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Firman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Firman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Firman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Firman, and how old are they?
An estimated 63 Americans named Firman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 221 people named Firman (0 women and girls, 221 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 65 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 296 babies since 1880, Firman is the most given (67% of them).
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.
More about Firman and names like it
- Compare Firman and FirminBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFirman peaked in 1927.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Firman since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Firman.
- Names starting with FMost given first.