Armin
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from Ermin, a hypocoristic of names in Ermen-, Ermin-; first attested Hervicus Ermin 1279 RH (O)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈaʁmiːn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Armin is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.4K
- USUnited States1 in 92K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 318 (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Ermin, a hypocoristic of names in Ermen-, Ermin-; first attested Hervicus Ermin 1279 RH (O)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Armin is read(measured from records)
Armin is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German59%
im 19. Jh. aufgekommener männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English13%
from Ermin, a hypocoristic of names in Ermen-, Ermin-; first attested Hervicus Ermin 1279 RH (O)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Ermyn Donetoun 1327 SRC; Hervicus Ermin 1279 RH (O); Thomas Armyn 1481 FrY. Ermin, a hypocoristic of names in Ermen-, Ermin-, such as OG Ermenald, Ermingaud.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- Spanish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Armin in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Armin, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Armin counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #231 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Armin | 242 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #560 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 318 | 26 | Armin | 33 |
| AT Austria | #209 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 3.4K | Armin | 140 |
| HU Hungary | — | 4,893 | 1 in 2K | 4.9K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,615 | 1 in 92K | 3.5K | Armin | 278 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 949 | 1 in 2.2K | 952 | — | 14 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Armin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Latin Arminius, name of a Germanic military leader who defeated the
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Fortified
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Finnish, genitive singular of Armi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Armin T. Wegnerb. 1886DEGerman pacifist, writer and poet (1886–1978)
- Armin Mueller-Stahlb. 1930DEGerman actor (born 1930)
- Armin Haryb. 1937DEGerman sprinter
- Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gothab. 1943DEnot in their usual namePrince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Armin Shimermanb. 1949USAmerican actor (born 1949)
- Armin Rohdeb. 1955DEGerman actor
- Armin Laschetb. 1961DEGerman politician (CDU)
- Armin Meiwesb. 1961DEGerman cannibal
- Armin van Buurenb. 1976NLDutch DJ and record producer (born 1976)
- Jonas Hectorb. 1990DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 83 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.5K | #4,925 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 3.4K | #150 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 952 | #405 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 949 | #195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 121 | #4,925 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 73 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 47 | #150 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH) | 2025 | 26 | #83 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2024 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Armin mean, and where does it come from?
- from Ermin, a hypocoristic of names in Ermen-, Ermin-; first attested Hervicus Ermin 1279 RH (O) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Armin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈaʁmiːn/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Armin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Armin in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled armin.
- Is Armin a male or female name?
- Armin is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Armin?
- In the etymology graph, Arminius is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Armin?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 4,893 people named Armin in 2025, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Armin compared with other names?
- In Germany, Armin is the 231st most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Armin?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arminThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Armin” — the 231st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.