Arminda
Arminda was last recorded in 2014, when 5 babies were given it; 1,294 Americans have been recorded with it between 1881 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arminda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arminda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arminda is “a female given name.”
From Portuguese.
/ɑː(ɹ)ˈmɪndə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arminda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,827, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1981, the peak
Arminda peaked in 1981, when 32 girls were given it, #2,782 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #16,827 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,175 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,176 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,835 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,927 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,547 | 4.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,382 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,041 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,335 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,591 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (111)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #10,838 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,330 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,929 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,955 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,085 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,653 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,216 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,088 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,191 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,571 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,307 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,859 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,993 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,547 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,466 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,334 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,691 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,787 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,782 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,138 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,785 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,089 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,677 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,413 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,165 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,115 | 15.0 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,213 | 6.9 |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,907 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,743 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,724 | 9.2 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,466 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,178 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,669 | 7.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,210 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,940 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,704 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,346 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,554 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,024 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,520 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,835 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,760 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,153 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,194 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,389 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,895 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,518 | 9.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,382 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,941 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,058 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,700 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,603 | 5.3 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,683 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,609 | 9.2 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,772 | 8.3 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,546 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,581 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,227 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,304 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,742 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,749 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,226 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,778 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,940 | 8.6 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,697 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,652 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,764 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,858 | 8.9 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,409 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,626 | 10.4 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,576 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,263 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,056 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,522 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,179 | 14.1 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,126 | 14.6 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,603 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,073 | 15.0 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,529 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,853 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,672 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,156 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,652 | 10.5 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,167 | 14.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,434 | 12.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,088 | 15.7 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,747 | 20.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,908 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,810 | 19.1 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,953 | 16.7 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,395 | 25.6 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,610 | 21.4 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,288 | 28.2 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,472 | 23.5 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,294 | 28.0 |
| 1886 | 13 | #637 | 89.9 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,057 | 37.6 |
| 1884 | 8 | #796 | 62.0 |
| 1883 | 7 | #758 | 62.3 |
| 1882 | 6 | #819 | 55.6 |
| 1881 | 7 | #686 | 76.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arminda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arminda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 111 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arminda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arminda, and how old are they?
An estimated 823 Americans named Arminda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 49 years old and half are between 39 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,578 people named Arminda (2,570 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 881 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 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.
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 Arminda born?
The states with the most babies named Arminda are Texas, California and Massachusetts, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 114 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 25 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 16 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Arminda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arminda is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.4 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 girls’ 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 Arminda 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 2,575 babies since 1880, Arminda is the most given (50% of them).
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 Arminda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Lucretia | 10,430 |
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 Arminda and names like it
- Compare Arminda and ArmandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sArminda peaked in 1981.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arminda since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Arminda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Arminda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.