Fermín

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Fermín

Say it: fer-MEEN

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Meaning

From Latin Firminus, from firmus 'firm, steadfast'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Most used in the 1990s

In the United States

4,684 babies given this name since 1910
At its height in 1994, about 1 in 22,500 boys
30 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Spanish Basque Argentine Mexican

The family of the name

Basque	Fermin
Catalan	Fermí

Famous bearers

Saint Fermin, patron of Navarre, honoured at Pamplona's Sanfermines

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LazarusBoyGreek form of Hebrew El'azar, 'God has helped'.Biblical · peak 2018 · forgotten

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Where this comes from

Calendars of saints and name days
Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
Parish baptism registers
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.