Fermí

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Fermí is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the verb fermare (“to stop”).

rarermore common
  • ARArgentina1 in 484K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.5M
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

145 people

Sources
59 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 484K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the verb fermare (“to stop”).

Sources 4

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fermí 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.

Where Fermí is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1451 in 1.5M145——
AR Argentina941 in 484K94——
ES Spain131 in 3.8M167Fermí5
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3—2
BE Belgium11 in 12M1—1

145 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fermí is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Fermi

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, Peru, United States

    Also written Fermi

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Fermi

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Italy

    Also written Fermi

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Fermí 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.

  • In Catalan, first-person singular preterite indicative of fermar

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

188019001920194019601980Fermí Abad i Ribera, b. 1884Fermí Tubau Pujol, b. 1892Fermí Palau i Casellas, b. 1894Fermí Vergés i Vergés, b. 1908Fermí Reixach i García, b. 1946Fermí Santamaria i Molero, b. 1954Fermí Rubiralta i Casas, b. 1959Fermí Fernàndez, b. 1963

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(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 2

  • 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 does the name Fermí mean, and where does it come from?
From the verb fermare (“to stop”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Fermí a male or female name?
Fermí is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Fermí have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 145 people named Fermí, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Fermí most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Fermí is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 484 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Fermí?
In Brazil, the national register counted 145 people named Fermí, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ferm%C3%AD

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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, “Fermí”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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