Armando
Armando was given to 538 boys in 2025, #556 among boys’ names; 76,887 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 65,000 Americans named Armando and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 21 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Armando by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Armando mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Armando is “a male given name, feminine equivalent Armanda, equivalent to English Herman; variant form Ermanno”
Borrowed from French Armand.
/arˈman.do/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Armando?
#556 among boys’ names, 2025
Armando fell from #416 in 2015 to #556 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.39 to 0.31 per 1,000.
1,512 babies in 1997, the peak
Armando peaked in 1997, when 1,512 boys were given it, #205 among boys’ names. The 538 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 538 | #556 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 518 | #565 | 0.30 |
| 2023 | 513 | #572 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 541 | #548 | 0.31 |
| 2021 | 515 | #554 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 580 | #502 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 549 | #520 | 0.31 |
| 2018 | 611 | #477 | 0.34 |
| 2017 | 608 | #480 | 0.33 |
| 2016 | 682 | #452 | 0.36 |
Every recorded year (118)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 750 | #416 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 775 | #399 | 0.40 |
| 2013 | 758 | #396 | 0.40 |
| 2012 | 822 | #367 | 0.43 |
| 2011 | 881 | #343 | 0.46 |
| 2010 | 959 | #326 | 0.50 |
| 2009 | 1,084 | #301 | 0.55 |
| 2008 | 1,137 | #295 | 0.56 |
| 2007 | 1,245 | #276 | 0.60 |
| 2006 | 1,304 | #264 | 0.63 |
| 2005 | 1,312 | #252 | 0.66 |
| 2004 | 1,386 | #240 | 0.70 |
| 2003 | 1,278 | #257 | 0.65 |
| 2002 | 1,393 | #243 | 0.72 |
| 2001 | 1,475 | #230 | 0.76 |
| 2000 | 1,443 | #237 | 0.73 |
| 1999 | 1,414 | #233 | 0.74 |
| 1998 | 1,427 | #224 | 0.75 |
| 1997 | 1,512 | #205 | 0.80 |
| 1996 | 1,368 | #221 | 0.72 |
| 1995 | 1,425 | #208 | 0.75 |
| 1994 | 1,292 | #225 | 0.67 |
| 1993 | 1,340 | #223 | 0.68 |
| 1992 | 1,275 | #232 | 0.64 |
| 1991 | 1,337 | #223 | 0.66 |
| 1990 | 1,288 | #229 | 0.63 |
| 1989 | 1,167 | #232 | 0.58 |
| 1988 | 993 | #242 | 0.52 |
| 1987 | 1,051 | #225 | 0.56 |
| 1986 | 1,061 | #223 | 0.58 |
| 1985 | 1,017 | #227 | 0.55 |
| 1984 | 952 | #234 | 0.53 |
| 1983 | 979 | #227 | 0.55 |
| 1982 | 986 | #236 | 0.54 |
| 1981 | 1,126 | #219 | 0.63 |
| 1980 | 1,090 | #222 | 0.61 |
| 1979 | 976 | #231 | 0.57 |
| 1978 | 895 | #234 | 0.55 |
| 1977 | 916 | #233 | 0.56 |
| 1976 | 962 | #217 | 0.61 |
| 1975 | 926 | #222 | 0.59 |
| 1974 | 872 | #236 | 0.55 |
| 1973 | 766 | #255 | 0.49 |
| 1972 | 773 | #256 | 0.48 |
| 1971 | 790 | #268 | 0.45 |
| 1970 | 730 | #287 | 0.39 |
| 1969 | 700 | #284 | 0.39 |
| 1968 | 643 | #294 | 0.37 |
| 1967 | 623 | #293 | 0.36 |
| 1966 | 642 | #294 | 0.36 |
| 1965 | 599 | #310 | 0.32 |
| 1964 | 628 | #308 | 0.32 |
| 1963 | 637 | #314 | 0.31 |
| 1962 | 629 | #312 | 0.30 |
| 1961 | 597 | #322 | 0.28 |
| 1960 | 610 | #316 | 0.29 |
| 1959 | 612 | #312 | 0.29 |
| 1958 | 592 | #312 | 0.28 |
| 1957 | 655 | #292 | 0.30 |
| 1956 | 647 | #290 | 0.31 |
| 1955 | 605 | #293 | 0.29 |
| 1954 | 569 | #302 | 0.28 |
| 1953 | 571 | #295 | 0.29 |
| 1952 | 529 | #311 | 0.27 |
| 1951 | 492 | #314 | 0.26 |
| 1950 | 487 | #309 | 0.27 |
| 1949 | 474 | #311 | 0.27 |
| 1948 | 407 | #332 | 0.23 |
| 1947 | 431 | #331 | 0.24 |
| 1946 | 364 | #338 | 0.22 |
| 1945 | 279 | #357 | 0.21 |
| 1944 | 248 | #381 | 0.18 |
| 1943 | 242 | #391 | 0.17 |
| 1942 | 255 | #383 | 0.18 |
| 1941 | 212 | #399 | 0.17 |
| 1940 | 193 | #418 | 0.17 |
| 1939 | 194 | #410 | 0.18 |
| 1938 | 200 | #402 | 0.18 |
| 1937 | 181 | #421 | 0.17 |
| 1936 | 166 | #433 | 0.16 |
| 1935 | 157 | #452 | 0.15 |
| 1934 | 186 | #405 | 0.18 |
| 1933 | 176 | #407 | 0.18 |
| 1932 | 208 | #388 | 0.20 |
| 1931 | 220 | #378 | 0.21 |
| 1930 | 268 | #342 | 0.24 |
| 1929 | 230 | #378 | 0.21 |
| 1928 | 240 | #379 | 0.22 |
| 1927 | 223 | #402 | 0.20 |
| 1926 | 203 | #424 | 0.18 |
| 1925 | 219 | #404 | 0.20 |
| 1924 | 193 | #440 | 0.17 |
| 1923 | 199 | #429 | 0.18 |
| 1922 | 187 | #446 | 0.17 |
| 1921 | 237 | #393 | 0.22 |
| 1920 | 162 | #478 | 0.15 |
| 1919 | 183 | #435 | 0.19 |
| 1918 | 186 | #430 | 0.18 |
| 1917 | 120 | #528 | 0.13 |
| 1916 | 98 | #585 | 0.11 |
| 1915 | 96 | #580 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 104 | #475 | 0.16 |
| 1913 | 54 | #598 | 0.11 |
| 1912 | 33 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 18 | #758 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 19 | #678 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 12 | #842 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 8 | #932 | 0.06 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Armando a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Armando has been given almost only to boys: 372 girls in 118 years of records.
Girls and boys named Armando: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Armando, and how old are they?
65,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 76,887 Americans ever recorded as Armando. The median Armando alive today is 33 years old; half are between 21 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 102,571 people named Armando (189 women and girls, 102,382 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 64,316 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 773 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,140 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 17,900 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 19,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,880 |
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 Armando born?
The states with the most babies named Armando are Texas, California and Arizona, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 142 | #276 | 3.6× |
| California | 130 | #283 | 3.0× |
| Arizona | 30 | #267 | 3.0× |
| Florida | 24 | #663 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 22 | #472 | 0.9× |
| Washington | 13 | #531 | 0.6× |
| New Mexico | 12 | #161 | 3.0× |
| Colorado | 12 | #470 | 0.9× |
| Nevada | 11 | #268 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #782 | 0.2× |
Where Armando is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Armando is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.6 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 Armando 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 78,336 babies since 1880, Armando is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 538 of their 538 babies (100%), 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 Armando
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 Armando and names like it
- Compare Armando and ArmondoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sArmando peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Armando since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Armando: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Armando.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Armando alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.