About the name Fermín
Fermín belongs to the Spanish tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess. It travels in a few spellings: Firmin.
In the United States, Fermín first appears in Social Security records in 1910. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1009 in 1949, and in 2024 30 babies received the name — 4,804 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.