Arman
Arman was given to 168 boys in 2025, #1,204 among boys’ names; 4,635 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,460 Americans named Arman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arman mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Arman is “a male given name”
From Ottoman Turkish ارمان, from Persian آرمان
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arman?
#1,204 among boys’ names, 2025
Arman rose from #1,538 in 2015 to #1,204 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 55.3 to 98.4 per million.
168 babies in 2025, the peak
Arman peaked in 2025, when 168 boys were given it, #1,204 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 151 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,204 | 98.4 |
| 2024 | 151 | #1,296 | 87.6 |
| 2023 | 119 | #1,498 | 69.6 |
| 2022 | 126 | #1,440 | 72.2 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,384 | 75.5 |
| 2020 | 106 | #1,557 | 61.4 |
| 2019 | 99 | #1,643 | 55.2 |
| 2018 | 106 | #1,576 | 58.4 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,567 | 56.2 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,576 | 54.8 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 106 | #1,538 | 55.3 |
| 2014 | 110 | #1,474 | 57.3 |
| 2013 | 114 | #1,445 | 60.3 |
| 2012 | 131 | #1,308 | 69.1 |
| 2011 | 107 | #1,505 | 56.3 |
| 2010 | 138 | #1,263 | 71.9 |
| 2009 | 151 | #1,194 | 76.1 |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,348 | 62.3 |
| 2007 | 145 | #1,215 | 69.9 |
| 2006 | 139 | #1,203 | 67.6 |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,162 | 68.6 |
| 2004 | 161 | #1,015 | 81.1 |
| 2003 | 135 | #1,124 | 68.3 |
| 2002 | 127 | #1,126 | 65.4 |
| 2001 | 134 | #1,071 | 69.0 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,127 | 62.6 |
| 1999 | 145 | #979 | 75.5 |
| 1998 | 124 | #1,061 | 64.9 |
| 1997 | 124 | #1,025 | 65.8 |
| 1996 | 93 | #1,204 | 49.1 |
| 1995 | 93 | #1,198 | 48.9 |
| 1994 | 64 | #1,473 | 33.1 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,316 | 37.7 |
| 1992 | 52 | #1,656 | 26.0 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,862 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 59 | #1,460 | 28.7 |
| 1989 | 41 | #1,826 | 20.5 |
| 1988 | 39 | #1,764 | 20.4 |
| 1987 | 40 | #1,684 | 21.4 |
| 1986 | 25 | #2,226 | 13.6 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,298 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,710 | 9.4 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,240 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,301 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,537 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 18 | #2,621 | 10.1 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,369 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 14 | #2,939 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,463 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,968 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,967 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,550 | 9.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,472 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,411 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,293 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,069 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,869 | 4.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,664 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,095 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,570 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,553 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,711 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,702 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,450 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 7 | #2,976 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,504 | 4.5 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,701 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,383 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #3,789 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,529 | 9.9 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,164 | 7.1 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,277 | 7.1 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,485 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,345 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,360 | 4.5 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,235 | 7.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arman, and how old are they?
4,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,635 Americans ever recorded as Arman. The median Arman alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 5,511 people named Arman (60 women and girls, 5,451 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,721 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Arman rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 36 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 102 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 666 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,530 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Arman born?
The states with the most babies named Arman are California, Texas and Virginia, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 56 | #543 | 2.6× |
| Texas | 24 | #976 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 14 | #527 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,263 | 0.3× |
| New York | 6 | #1,591 | 1.2× |
| Washington | 6 | #909 | 0.4× |
Where Arman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arman is most over-represented in California: since 1917 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arman with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 17,780 babies since 1880, Arman is the most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 168 of their 466 babies (36%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arman
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arman and names like it
- Compare Arman and ArmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sArman peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arman since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Arman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Arman.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arman alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.