In German the village is known as Jahrmein or Hermann, in Hungarian as Járomnaszentmiklós, and in Serbian Cyrillic as Јармина.
[3] Historical records indicate that increase in tax burdens in 1770 forced the entire local Serb population as well as large majority of Croats to leave the settlement.
[6] The municipality is home to a monument to defenders and civilians killed in the Croatian War of Independence which has the names of 15 deceased people.
[7] Near Borinci, a hamlet between Jarmina and Vinkovci, there is a 171 metres tall guyed mast for FM-/TV-broadcasting.
Jarmina is unofficial name of the Vinkovci Marshaling yard and freight railway station.