Fun Facts About the Name Armin
- More than 3 thousand babies named Armin: U.S. records list 3,317 babies given the name Armin from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Armin Mean?
Armin is a German masculine name built on the Old High German element irmin, meaning "whole," "great," or "universal." That element descends from a Proto-Germanic form reconstructed as *erminaz, and it also underlies the old divine name Irmin and the compound names Irmgard and Irmina. Read this way, the name's literal sense is a quality of greatness or wholeness, not a description of a particular person.
The name is tied to the Latin form Arminius, the name Roman writers gave to the Cheruscan leader who destroyed three legions under Varus in 9 AD. Whether Arminius rests on the same *erminaz element or on the Germanic root *harjaz ("army") is disputed, so the origin of the Latin name is not settled. Hermann, often used as the German counterpart of Arminius, is a different name, formed from *harjaz "army" and *mann- "man."
Armin (آرمین) is also a common male name in Persian, generally treated as a separate name rather than a form of the German one; a secure meaning for it is not well established.
Armin Name History & Origins
The element behind Armin is old in Germanic naming. Tacitus lists the Irminones as one of the three groupings of Germanic peoples, and the Saxons later venerated a pillar they called the Irminsul; both names rest on the same irmin root. Personal names formed with Irmin- appear in early medieval Frankish and German records, among them the seventh-century abbess Irmina of Oeren.
The Cheruscan leader known in Latin as Arminius led the ambush of Publius Quinctilius Varus and his legions in the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. Roman writers, including Velleius Paterculus and Tacitus, are the sources for his name and his deeds, but his own Germanic name was not preserved. German humanists of the sixteenth century took him up as a national founding figure and commonly called him Hermann, while the Latin form Arminius stayed in scholarly use. The modern given name Armin belongs to that same tradition and is usually understood as connected with Arminius rather than as a continuous inheritance from antiquity.
The story drew renewed attention in the nineteenth century: Heinrich von Kleist's play Die Hermannsschlacht dates from 1808, and the Hermannsdenkmal near Detmold was completed in 1875. The name Armin appears in German-speaking Europe in this period and remains a familiar German given name, also used in the Netherlands and in Persian-speaking countries.
How Popular is the Name Armin?
Armin recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2023. Its best rank was #884 in 1914.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,038 | 73 | 0.0043% |
| 2024 | #1,965 | 79 | 0.0046% |
| 2023 | #1,875 | 84 | 0.0049% |
| 2022 | #1,966 | 78 | 0.0045% |
| 2021 | #2,096 | 69 | 0.0039% |
| 2020 | #2,469 | 52 | 0.0030% |
| 2019 | #2,216 | 63 | 0.0035% |
| 2018 | #2,235 | 61 | 0.0034% |
| 2017 | #2,154 | 63 | 0.0034% |
| 2016 | #2,028 | 70 | 0.0037% |
| 2015 | #2,170 | 63 | 0.0033% |
| 2014 | #2,233 | 60 | 0.0031% |
| 2013 | #2,366 | 53 | 0.0028% |
| 2012 | #2,519 | 49 | 0.0026% |
| 2011 | #2,664 | 45 | 0.0024% |
| 2010 | #2,556 | 48 | 0.0025% |
| 2009 | #2,848 | 42 | 0.0021% |
| 2008 | #2,295 | 57 | 0.0028% |
| 2007 | #2,870 | 41 | 0.0020% |
| 2006 | #2,701 | 43 | 0.0021% |
| 2005 | #2,367 | 49 | 0.0025% |
| 2004 | #2,210 | 52 | 0.0026% |
| 2003 | #1,963 | 59 | 0.0030% |
| 2002 | #2,508 | 39 | 0.0020% |
| 2001 | #1,984 | 54 | 0.0028% |
| 2000 | #2,299 | 42 | 0.0021% |
| 1999 | #2,099 | 45 | 0.0023% |
| 1998 | #2,159 | 42 | 0.0022% |
| 1997 | #1,991 | 45 | 0.0024% |
| 1996 | #2,486 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 1995 | #2,509 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 1994 | #3,334 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 1993 | #3,506 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1992 | #3,931 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1991 | #4,778 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #3,794 | 15 | 0.0007% |
| 1989 | #3,825 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1988 | #2,770 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 1987 | #3,348 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1986 | #3,453 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1985 | #3,080 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1984 | #2,967 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1983 | #3,899 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1982 | #3,501 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1981 | #4,174 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1980 | #2,974 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1979 | #2,240 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 1978 | #2,382 | 19 | 0.0012% |
| 1977 | #2,565 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1976 | #2,182 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 1975 | #2,645 | 15 | 0.0010% |
| 1974 | #2,465 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 1973 | #2,518 | 15 | 0.0010% |
| 1972 | #3,170 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1971 | #2,981 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1970 | #2,127 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1969 | #2,693 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1968 | #2,206 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1967 | #2,479 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1966 | #2,137 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1965 | #1,988 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1964 | #2,117 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1963 | #2,304 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 1962 | #2,373 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1961 | #2,421 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1960 | #3,097 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1959 | #2,540 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 1958 | #2,030 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 1957 | #2,100 | 15 | 0.0007% |
| 1956 | #2,369 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1955 | #2,975 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1954 | #2,213 | 13 | 0.0006% |
| 1953 | #2,046 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1952 | #2,080 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1951 | #2,057 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1950 | #2,783 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1949 | #1,946 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1948 | #2,029 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1947 | #1,651 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 1946 | #1,889 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 1945 | #2,406 | 9 | 0.0007% |
| 1944 | #1,579 | 19 | 0.0014% |
| 1943 | #1,911 | 15 | 0.0011% |
| 1942 | #1,803 | 16 | 0.0012% |
| 1941 | #1,634 | 18 | 0.0015% |
| 1940 | #2,333 | 10 | 0.0009% |
| 1939 | #1,640 | 17 | 0.0015% |
| 1938 | #1,365 | 24 | 0.0022% |
| 1937 | #1,483 | 21 | 0.0020% |
| 1936 | #1,356 | 24 | 0.0023% |
| 1935 | #1,762 | 16 | 0.0015% |
| 1934 | #1,267 | 28 | 0.0027% |
| 1933 | #1,161 | 32 | 0.0032% |
| 1932 | #1,652 | 19 | 0.0018% |
| 1931 | #1,698 | 18 | 0.0017% |
| 1930 | #1,301 | 30 | 0.0027% |
| 1929 | #1,483 | 24 | 0.0022% |
| 1928 | #1,126 | 39 | 0.0035% |
| 1927 | #1,322 | 31 | 0.0028% |
| 1926 | #1,725 | 20 | 0.0018% |
| 1925 | #1,227 | 34 | 0.0030% |
| 1924 | #1,059 | 45 | 0.0040% |
| 1923 | #993 | 49 | 0.0045% |
| 1922 | #1,338 | 30 | 0.0028% |
| 1921 | #1,199 | 36 | 0.0033% |
| 1920 | #1,180 | 37 | 0.0035% |
| 1919 | #1,324 | 29 | 0.0030% |
| 1918 | #1,063 | 41 | 0.0040% |
| 1917 | #1,132 | 35 | 0.0038% |
| 1916 | #985 | 42 | 0.0047% |
| 1915 | #1,084 | 35 | 0.0041% |
| 1914 | #884 | 38 | 0.0058% |
| 1913 | #1,113 | 21 | 0.0041% |
| 1912 | #972 | 22 | 0.0051% |
| 1911 | #1,757 | 5 | 0.0022% |
| 1906 | #1,261 | 5 | 0.0038% |
| 1893 | #1,044 | 5 | 0.0045% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Armin Shapes Your Personality and Life?
Powerful and complete. You are good intellectually and require several outlets for your energies. You are not a builder but a planner, and you want others to carry out your plans. You are bold, independent, inquisitive and interested in research. You know what you want and why you want it.
You are always looking for a chance to do your own thing, to be your own person, and to have things done your own way.
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