# Momin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/momin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Urdu |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 331 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 331 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 263, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu مومِن (momin), borrowed from Classical Persian مُؤْمِن (mu'min), borrowed from Arabic مُؤْمِن (muʔmin), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). Doublet of mu'min.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | 11,725 |
| 2011 | 13 | 6,471 |
| 2012 | 10 | 7,947 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,373 |
| 2014 | 7 | 10,377 |
| 2015 | 8 | 9,291 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,600 |
| 2017 | 12 | 6,974 |
| 2019 | 11 | 7,470 |
| 2020 | 25 | 4,105 |
| 2021 | 25 | 4,193 |
| 2022 | 21 | 4,806 |
| 2023 | 24 | 4,423 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,762 |
| 2025 | 19 | 5,145 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 1,909 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2013 | 11 | 1,920 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2,964 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,004 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,556 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,040 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 6 | 3,013 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 27 | 1,058 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,461 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1,276 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.