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Arman

#1,204 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly to move, set in motion, through آرمان

Arman has been given to 4,635 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #1,204 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 168 recorded.

Babies named Arman, 2025

1 in 19,700

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arman: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly to move, set in motion, through آرمان

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arman means

Arman belongs to the name family reached through Arman → آرمان. Its meaning is “to move, set in motion”.

Origin, language, and formation

Arman is used in Cebuano and Turkish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Armand and آرمان.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Cebuano, Arman is pronounced /ˈʔaɾman/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,635 boys were recorded with the name Arman between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 168 in 2025; its best national rank was #979 in 1999.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,557 in 2020 to #1,204 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,538 in 2015 to #1,204 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Arman?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,700
168 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 10,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,204
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,679 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arman 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 13,679 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Armans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arman was born before 2007 — so the typical Arman is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,546
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (1,379).

Is Arman 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
+92
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+353
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+334
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.58×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (168)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#979
1999

Spellings of Arman

Arman is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 26.5% against Arman's 0.10%.

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 Arman is used

Across 2016–2025, Arman was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 11,829 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 4,762
  2. 2Virginia1 in 6,667
  3. 3New York1 in 11,111
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Florida1 in 25,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 25,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 25,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 33,333

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.

Arman around the world

Where Arman 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
    #702
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2013–2021
    #755
    in 2021
  • France
    1982–2025
    #1,279
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #370
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #772
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1996–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, 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 Arman

People whose public names include Arman, 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.

Arman in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Arman. Linked forms have their own page here.

AmanArmandArmantas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Arman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,204
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 353
Best rank ever
#979
1999
Peak year
2025
168 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,635
Count in 2025
168

Names similar to Arman

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

ArmonArminArmenArmondArmaanOsmanAymanLymanArmoniArmandArmaniUsmanSalmanAmanHymanGermanArmelWymanTillmanImanFermanTrumanRahmanKalman

Names with a curve like Arman

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

GersonAlekKenanSamiCanyonDezmondKeoniGeovanniHusseinNeelIsaiKentrell

Sibling names for Arman

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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