Armatha

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Armatha has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1923, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Armatha, 1931

1 in 421,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Armatha: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Armatha means

Armatha is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Armatha is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 44 girls were recorded with the name Armatha between 1917 and 1931. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1923; its best national rank was #3,893 in 1926.

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.

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How common is Armatha?

Armatha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1931, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1931: 1 in 421,000; 5 of 2,104,333 births
Among girls only: 1 in 213,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1931: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 291,724 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Armatha 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 1931 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 291,724 children born in 1931 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Armatha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Armathas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Armatha was born before 1924 — so the typical Armatha is around 101 today.

Median birth year: 1924; About 101 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 75.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Armatha 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 1923 (7)
Years since peak: 102; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Steady; 10.3% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,893; 1926

Spellings of Armatha

Armatha is not the most common spelling — Agatha is, with 31.2% against Armatha's 0.14%.

Agatha31.2%9,491
Aretha18.6%5,656
Samatha13.8%4,202
Tamatha9.2%2,812
Reatha8.6%2,624
Arletha5.4%1,640
Ardath4.4%1,326
Armanda4.2%1,281

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.

Armatha 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: #3,893; 1926
Peak year: 1923; 7 that year
First recorded: 1917
Last recorded: 1931
All-time count: 44
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Armatha

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

Armetha Armentha Armintha Armita Armonee Armanni Armanee Armiyah Armenda Armonii Armonni Armelle Armilla Armahni Armande Armari Armelda Armeta Ishitha Armony Armisha Armesha Armanii Renatha

Sibling names for Armatha

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

Filomena Novella Dorcas Vernice Bethel Rosina Kattie Magdalene

For a brother

Elwin Rubin Bertram Eldridge Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton

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