Given name & surname · also Urdu
Momin
Momin is a masculine given name from Urdu, ultimately from Arabic.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Momin comes from Urdu, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Urdu مومِن, from Classical Persian مُؤْمِن, from Arabic مُؤْمِن, from Arabic آمَنَ, from Arabic ء م ن.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Momin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 331
- 331 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 19
- #5,145 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +72%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 19 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,145 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 369 as a first name in 2020; 3,822 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Momin’s family of names
In English usage, Momin shares an earlier linguistic root with mu'min. In Urdu usage, Momin is a Roman-alphabet rendering of مومن.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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