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Armaan

#1,635 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Armaan has been given to 3,427 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,635 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 174 recorded.

Babies named Armaan, 2025

1 in 32,200

Armaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Armaan: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Armaan means

Armaan is a given name.

The naming story behind Armaan

Wikidata records Armaan as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q112949545, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,427 boys were recorded with the name Armaan between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 174 in 2009; its best national rank was #1,070 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,353 in 2020 to #1,635 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,247 in 2015 to #1,635 in 2025.

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.

How common is Armaan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,200
103 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,635
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Armaan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Armaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Armaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Armaan was born before 2012 — so the typical Armaan is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,427
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (1,473).

Is Armaan 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
−46
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−282
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−388
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.2%
Peak was 2009 (174)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,070
2009

Spellings of Armaan

Armaan is not the most common spelling — Armani is, with 16.1% against Armaan's 3.6%.

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 Armaan is used

Across 2016–2025, Armaan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 12,600 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,556
  2. 2California1 in 5,882
  3. 3New York1 in 6,667
  4. 4Washington1 in 7,692
  5. 5Virginia1 in 8,333
  6. 6Illinois1 in 9,091
  7. 7Indiana1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Armaan around the world

Where Armaan 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
    1996–2025
    #639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2014–2017
    #710
    in 2017
  • France
    2006–2025
    #4,011
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #239
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Armaan

People whose public names include Armaan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Armaan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,635
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 282
Best rank ever
#1,070
2009
Peak year
2009
174 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,427
Count in 2025
103

Names similar to Armaan

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

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Names with a curve like Armaan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Armaan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MikahEwanBrightonKellerCarsenZavionDaylenMakhiSiddharthCianCanonJael

Sibling names for Armaan

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

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