Arma

Girls' name

Moon, month

Arma has been given to 606 babies in the U.S. since 1906. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1946, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Arma, 1969

1 in 695,000

Arma over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arma: meaning, origin, and history

Moon, month

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arma means

Arma means “moon, month”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Arma is used in Hittite Mythology and Luwian Mythology.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 606 girls were recorded with the name Arma between 1906 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1946; its best national rank was #1,531 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Arma?

Arma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1969, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1969: 1 in 695,000; 5 of 3,475,126 births
Among girls only: 1 in 337,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1969: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 481,756 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Arma sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1969 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 481,756 children born in 1969 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Armas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arma was born before 1944 — so the typical Arma is around 81 today.

Median birth year: 1944; About 81 years old
Biggest decade: 1940s; 26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 48.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 199; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1940s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (160).

Is Arma rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1946 (33)
Years since peak: 79; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,531; 1946

Spellings of Arma

Arma is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 15.0% against Arma's <0.01%.

Anna15.0%914,859
Emma12.7%776,439
Amy11.5%701,631
Maria9.3%566,111
Sara7.1%436,193
Ava5.6%344,097
Norma4.6%278,071
Tara2.9%175,812

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Arma is used

Across 1910–2025, Arma was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 353,395 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Mississippi1 in 50,000
2Alabama1 in —
3Arkansas1 in —
4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arma around the world

Where Arma ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2024–2025
#5,137
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Arma by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #1,531; 1946
Peak year: 1946; 33 that year
First recorded: 1906
Last recorded: 1969
All-time count: 606
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Arma

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Armina Armonie Armella Armanii Orma Armoni Kharma Earma Dorma Armonii Armiyah Armeda Herma Verma Burma Arminta Armonee Armita Armelia Carma Armya Armando Dharma Berma

Sibling names for Arma

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jerrie Dian Carolann Karolyn Elida Reta Janey Ernestina

For a brother

Lupe Connie Domingo Fredric Felton Gale Frederic Ronny

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