Armen
Armen was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,133 among boys’ names; 2,144 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,720 Americans named Armen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 15 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Armen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Armen?
#3,133 among boys’ names, 2025
Armen rose from #4,412 in 2015 to #3,133 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 22.2 per million.
47 babies in 2007, the peak
Armen peaked in 2007, when 47 boys were given it, #2,608 among boys’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 81% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,133 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,334 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,058 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,694 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,023 | 22.9 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,817 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,350 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,232 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,604 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,445 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,412 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,901 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 23 | #4,192 | 12.2 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,136 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,830 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,715 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 38 | #3,048 | 19.2 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,222 | 17.2 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,608 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,883 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 38 | #2,802 | 19.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,217 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 43 | #2,427 | 21.8 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,022 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 43 | #2,306 | 22.1 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,734 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 30 | #2,794 | 15.6 |
| 1998 | 27 | #2,928 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 24 | #3,063 | 12.7 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,181 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 33 | #2,346 | 17.3 |
| 1994 | 32 | #2,390 | 16.6 |
| 1993 | 35 | #2,207 | 17.8 |
| 1992 | 34 | #2,213 | 17.0 |
| 1991 | 22 | #2,912 | 10.9 |
| 1990 | 24 | #2,696 | 11.7 |
| 1989 | 44 | #1,728 | 22.0 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,032 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,467 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 22 | #2,429 | 11.9 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,794 | 17.9 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,296 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,412 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,113 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 24 | #2,139 | 13.4 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,369 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 26 | #1,995 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,078 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 14 | #2,919 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,835 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,676 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,959 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,862 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,828 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 11 | #2,980 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,628 | 7.0 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,313 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,111 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 16 | #1,977 | 9.2 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,047 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,483 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,213 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,205 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,320 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,547 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,694 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,537 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,266 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,020 | 7.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,634 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,523 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 12 | #2,320 | 5.9 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,399 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,078 | 7.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,141 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,212 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,037 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,615 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,076 | 7.7 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,032 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,248 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,639 | 5.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,717 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,667 | 6.5 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,333 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,190 | 5.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,460 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,133 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,273 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 12 | #2,099 | 12.1 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,472 | 9.6 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,932 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,304 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 21 | #1,615 | 19.5 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,964 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,532 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 9 | #2,917 | 8.1 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,442 | 10.8 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,825 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,876 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,266 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,506 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 9 | #2,978 | 8.5 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,516 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,553 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,741 | 9.7 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,553 | 11.2 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,415 | 7.1 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,282 | 13.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Armen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Armen has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 109 years of records.
Girls and boys named Armen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Armen, and how old are they?
1,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 2,144 Americans ever recorded as Armen. The median Armen alive today is 27 years old; half are between 15 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 4,182 people named Armen (84 women and girls, 4,098 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,577 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 143 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 202 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 439 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 519 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 389 |
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 Armen born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #847 | 4.2× |
Where Armen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Armen is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 4.2 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 Armen 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 17,541 babies since 1880, Armen is the fifth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 466 babies (8.2%), again the fifth 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 Armen
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 Armen and names like it
- Compare Armen and ArmanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArmen peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Armen since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Armen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Armen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.