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Armand

#3,851 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Herman

Armand has been given to 15,349 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,851 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 351 recorded.

Babies named Armand, 2025

1 in 118,000

Armand over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Armand: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Herman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Armand means

Armand is a form of Herman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Armand is a form of Herman. Herman has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Armand is used in Albanian and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Herman and Hermann.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Armand is pronounced /aʁ.mɑ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,343 boys were recorded with the name Armand between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 351 in 1918; its best national rank was #291 in 1918.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,204 in 2020 to #3,851 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,603 in 2015 to #3,851 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Armand between 1921 and 1921. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1921; its best national rank was #4,493 in 1921.

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 Armand?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,851
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Armand 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Armand. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Armands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Armand was born before 1942 — so the typical Armand is around 83 today.

Median birth year
1942
About 83 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,546
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (2,961).

Is Armand 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
−240
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−647
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,248
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.0%
Peak was 1918 (351)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#291
1918

Spellings of Armand

Armand is not the most common spelling — Armando is, with 32.5% against Armand's 6.5%.

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 Armand is used

Across 1910–2025, Armand was most concentrated in New Hampshire — about 1 in 781 boys, against 1 in 12,284 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

0128 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Hampshire1 in 781
  2. 2Rhode Island1 in 901
  3. 3Maine1 in 1,220
  4. 4Vermont1 in 1,351
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 1,923
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 4,000
  7. 7New York1 in 8,333
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 9,091

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. Armand has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Armand around the world

Where Armand 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
    1996–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2025
    #128
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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

Notable people named Armand

People whose public names include Armand, 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.

Armand in other languages

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

HarmAmandArmanHermanArmandoHermannAmantHeřmanArmandsErmannoArmandusArmantasHarmanusHermanasHermanisHermanniHermanusHerrmann

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

Armand by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,851
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 647
Best rank ever
#291
1918
Peak year
1918
351 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,343
Count in 2025
28

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,493
1921
Peak year
1921
6 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
1921
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Armand

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

ArmaniArmondRylandArmaanArmanArmonArminArmoniArmandoRollandGarlandLelandArmenHarlandRolandRowlandWaylandArlandNolandLeelandHollandClevelandDylandFerdinand

Names with a curve like Armand

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

BasilMervinOdellClementRusselVitoElvinCarmenFreemanErwinWeldonThurman

Sibling names for Armand

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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