Armin
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Armin is a given name, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in German and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Ermin, a hypocoristic of names in Ermen-, Ermin-; first attested Hervicus Ermin 1279 RH (O).
- ATAustria1 in 1.1K◐
- DEGermany1 in 1.1K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- 5 ●
- Sources
- 256 ●
- 1 in 2.0K ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
141K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ármin in HU Hungary.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #229 | 106,962 | 95K rec. | — | listed | Armin | 226 |
| AT Austria | #184 | 15,741 | 3.2K rec. | — | 3.4K | Armin | 135 |
| HU Hungary | — | 4,893 | 0 rec. | 1 in 2K | 4.9K | Ármin | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | #151 | 4,077 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Armin | 81 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,514 | 604 rec. | — | 686 | Armin | 46 |
| US United States | — | 3,494 | 26K rec. | 1 in 95K | 3.5K | Armin | 256 |
| IR Iran | — | 3,060 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Armin | 53 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,805 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Armin | 34 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,761 | 1.5K rec. | — | 4 | Armin | 107 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,585 | 1.3K rec. | — | 3 | Armin | 73 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,350△ | 569 rec. | 1 in 7.6K | 1.4K | Armin | 50 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,325 | 1.1K rec. | — | 2 | Armin | 70 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German139K53%
- Spanish26K10%
- Hungarian24K9%
- English23K9%
- Portuguese5.8K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 138,999 | 53% |
| Spanish | 26,131 | 10% |
| Hungarian | 24,025 | 9% |
| English | 23,452 | 9% |
| Portuguese | 5,793 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Armin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, 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
Latin Arminius, name of a Germanic military leader who defeated the
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In German, im 19. Jh. aufgekommener männl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1893 | 5 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1912 | 22 |
| 1913 | 21 |
| 1914 | 38 |
| 1915 | 35 |
| 1916 | 42 |
| 1917 | 35 |
| 1918 | 41 |
| 1919 | 29 |
| 1920 | 37 |
| 1921 | 36 |
| 1922 | 30 |
| 1923 | 49 |
| 1924 | 45 |
| 1925 | 34 |
| 1926 | 20 |
| 1927 | 31 |
| 1928 | 39 |
| 1929 | 24 |
| 1930 | 30 |
| 1931 | 18 |
| 1932 | 19 |
| 1933 | 32 |
| 1934 | 28 |
| 1935 | 16 |
| 1936 | 24 |
| 1937 | 21 |
| 1938 | 24 |
| 1939 | 17 |
| 1940 | 10 |
| 1941 | 18 |
| 1942 | 16 |
| 1943 | 15 |
| 1944 | 19 |
| 1945 | 9 |
| 1946 | 15 |
| 1947 | 21 |
| 1948 | 14 |
| 1949 | 15 |
| 1950 | 8 |
| 1951 | 14 |
| 1952 | 14 |
| 1953 | 15 |
| 1954 | 13 |
| 1955 | 8 |
| 1956 | 12 |
| 1957 | 15 |
| 1958 | 16 |
| 1959 | 11 |
| 1960 | 8 |
| 1961 | 12 |
| 1962 | 12 |
| 1963 | 13 |
| 1964 | 15 |
| 1965 | 16 |
| 1966 | 14 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 14 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 18 |
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 15 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 15 |
| 1976 | 21 |
| 1977 | 17 |
| 1978 | 19 |
| 1979 | 22 |
| 1980 | 15 |
| 1981 | 9 |
| 1982 | 12 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 15 |
| 1986 | 13 |
| 1987 | 14 |
| 1988 | 20 |
| 1989 | 14 |
| 1990 | 15 |
| 1991 | 11 |
| 1992 | 15 |
| 1993 | 18 |
| 1994 | 20 |
| 1995 | 30 |
| 1996 | 31 |
| 1997 | 45 |
| 1998 | 42 |
| 1999 | 45 |
| 2000 | 42 |
| 2001 | 54 |
| 2002 | 39 |
| 2003 | 59 |
| 2004 | 52 |
| 2005 | 49 |
| 2006 | 43 |
| 2007 | 41 |
| 2008 | 57 |
| 2009 | 42 |
| 2010 | 48 |
| 2011 | 45 |
| 2012 | 49 |
| 2013 | 53 |
| 2014 | 60 |
| 2015 | 63 |
| 2016 | 70 |
| 2017 | 63 |
| 2018 | 61 |
| 2019 | 63 |
| 2020 | 52 |
| 2021 | 69 |
| 2022 | 78 |
| 2023 | 84 |
| 2024 | 79 |
| 2025 | 73 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 117 years between 1893–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 80 sources across 37 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 912 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Armin?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Armin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Armin have the most bearers?
- Armin is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled armin.
- How common is Armin compared with other names?
- In Germany, Armin is the 229th most common given name of 154,506 given names recorded there.
- 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 does the name Armin mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Ermin, a hypocoristic of names in Ermen-, Ermin-; first attested Hervicus Ermin 1279 RH (O)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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 229th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.