Armas
Armas was last recorded in 1925, when 5 babies were given it; 72 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Armas by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Armas mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Armas is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “beloved” (armas).
19th-century creation from armas (“beloved”).
/ˈɑrmɑs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Armas?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,234, in 1925; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1917, the peak
Armas peaked in 1917, when 15 boys were given it, #1,991 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 5 | #4,234 | 4.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #3,891 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,326 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,891 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,552 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 15 | #1,991 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 8 | #2,937 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,103 | 8.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,512 | 11.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Armas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Armas has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Armas: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Armas, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Armas was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,766 babies since 1880, Armas is the third most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 52 babies recorded by SSA was a Armas (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Armas and names like it
- Compare Armas and AramisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sArmas peaked in 1917.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Armas: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Armas.
- Names starting with AMost given first.