MEANING & HISTORY
What does Fermin mean?
Fermin is recorded as a Basque form of Firminus in the consulted reference; Spanish Fermín belongs to the same family. Latin Firminus is associated with firmness.
The unaccented Cebuano entry establishes local personal-name use without selecting a specific borrowing route. The documented family should not be confused with the separate Spanish Fermina feminine formation.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Dictionary readings are kept by language. Select the reading that matches your intended pronunciation. Dots show the source’s written divisions; they are not a universal syllable count across languages.
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
a male given name
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People with the name Fermin
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Fermin Torralba
Filipino politician
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Fermin Torralba
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Fermin in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Fermin
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Fermín♂Firm or steadfast, through Latin Firminus
- Armin♂Modern form of Latinized Arminius
- Ferdie♂Diminutive of Ferdinand
- Amin♂Truthful or trustworthy in Arabic
- Feling♀Familiar form of Felisa or Felicidad
- Felix♂Happy, fortunate or lucky
- Félix♂Happy or fortunate
- Fergus♂Man and vigour
What rhymes with Fermin?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Fermin further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q43389283 — Fermin (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Fermin Torralba (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q43389283 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Fermin (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Behind the Name — Fermin (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Fermín (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.
- Behind the Name — Firmin (opens in a new tab)
Consulted account of the name’s formation, relevant root elements, or explicitly linked base name.