Erminio
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nome germanico da ermin- 'grande, universale'; interpretato anche come nome del dio dei Germani
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: ISTAT, 2024
/ɛrminio/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erminio is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 75K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 87K
- USUnited States1 in 849K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Nome germanico da ermin- 'grande, universale'; interpretato anche come nome del dio dei Germani.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Erminio 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 2 | Erminio | 36 |
| BR Brazil | 2,812 | 1 in 75K | 5.1K | Erminio | 56 |
| AR Argentina | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 87K | 3 | Erminio | 27 |
| PH Philippines | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 255K | — | Erminio | 10 |
| US United States | 392 | 1 in 849K | 392 | Erminio | 76 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Erminio | 12 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Erminio | 9 |
| HN Honduras | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Erminio | 5 |
| NI Nicaragua | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Erminio | 4 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)Erminio is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Potente
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)- Erminio Valentib. 1564ITItalian cardinal
- Erminio Siparib. 1879ITItalian politician
- Erminio Donesb. 1887ITItalian rower (1887–1945)
- Erminio Spallab. 1897ITItalian actor and boxer (1897–1971)
- Erminio Macariob. 1902ITItalian actor (1902–1980)
- Erminio De Scalzib. 1940ITItalian Catholic Bishop
- Erminio Favallib. 1944ITItalian footballer (1944-2008)
- Erminio Bosob. 1945ITItalian politician
- Erminio Azzarob. 1948ITItalian high jumper
- Erminio Rullob. 1984ITItalian footballer
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)41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 5.1K | #3,353 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 5K | #1,234 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.8K | #4,066 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 2.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 2.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 2.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 2.1K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 392 | #24,534 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 30 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2000 | 6 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Erminio?
- In the etymology graph, Herminio, Hermínio and Herminius are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Erminio?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛrminio/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Erminio a male or female name?
- Erminio is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Erminio mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nome germanico da ermin- 'grande, universale'; interpretato anche come nome del dio dei Germani.
- In which country does Erminio have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Erminio in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erminio.
- How common is the name Erminio?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,812 people named Erminio in 2022, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Erminio?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erminioThe 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, “Erminio”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.