Given name & surname

Arma

Arma is used as a given name and a surname.

Meaning & origin

A reliable meaning for Arma isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1906. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Arma through the years

Babies since 1880
606
0 boys · 606 girls
Most popular year
1946
33 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0102030192019401960198020002025Highest share 19460.0
Arma in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1906–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1969. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 33 in 1946. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 410 as a first name in 2020; 120 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Arma’s family of names

In Greek usage, Arma as a surname is a transliteration of Αρμά.

Walk Arma’s family in the name graph

ArmaΑρμάErmaArna

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Arma

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

Similar names

If you love Arma, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

 

Aleta

11Very rareEasing

>99% girls

 

Arbra

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

 

Annelle

13Very rareSteady

>99% girls

Virtue

Annetta

“grace, gracious”

16Very rareCooling

>99% girls

 

Wanema

0Not recently recorded

>99% girls

 

Sarann

“one who brings joy to others”

12Very rare

>99% girls

Literary

Sharan

“rose of Sharon” · “from the plains; a flowering shrub”

11Very rare

5% boys · 95% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Arma’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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