Given name
Arminda
Arminda is a feminine given name from Portuguese. It is used in English, Italian, and Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1881. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arminda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,294
- 0 boys · 1,294 girls
- Most popular year
- 1981
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 32 in 1981. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,578 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Arminda’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arminda
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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