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Armen

#3,133 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Armen has been given to 2,144 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,133 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 47 recorded.

Babies named Armen, 2025

1 in 87,200

Armen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Armen: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Armen means

Armen is a given name.

The naming story behind Armen

Wikidata records Armen as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q20512802, 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, 2,139 boys were recorded with the name Armen between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 47 in 2007; its best national rank was #1,615 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,817 in 2020 to #3,133 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,412 in 2015 to #3,133 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Armen between 1920 and 1920. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1920; its best national rank was #5,018 in 1920.

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 Armen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,133
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Armen 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Armen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Armens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Armen was born before 1992 — so the typical Armen is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,783
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (376).

Is Armen 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
+201
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+684
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,279
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.73×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.9%
Peak was 2007 (47)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,615
1929

Spellings of Armen

Armen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 20.2% against Armen's 0.16%.

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 Armen is used

Across 1910–2025, Armen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 44,305 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 16,667
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —

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

Armen around the world

Where Armen 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
    2006–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1928–2025
    #2,892
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #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 Armen

People whose public names include Armen, 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.

Armen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,133
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 684
Best rank ever
#1,615
1929
Peak year
2007
47 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,139
Count in 2025
38

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,018
1920
Peak year
1920
5 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1920
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Armen

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

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Names with a curve like Armen

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

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Sibling names for Armen

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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