Armor
#7,230 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Armor has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #7,230 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Armor, 2025
1 in 301,000
Armor over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Armor?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,230
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Armor sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Armor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Armors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Armor was born before 2019 — so the typical Armor is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 41.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 81
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (41).
Is Armor 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
- +583
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,946
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,994
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2017 (11)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.0% average annual change
Spellings of Armor
Armor is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 26.5% against Armor's 0.05%.
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.
Armor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Armor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Armor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.