Given name & surname
Armstrong
“a strong warrior”
Armstrong is used as a given name and a surname. One Scottish interpretation is “a strong warrior.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scottish interpretation is “a strong warrior.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Scottish.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1917. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Armstrong through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 80
- 80 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #10,803 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,803 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 374 as a first name in 2020; 129,826 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.
Armstrong’s family of names
Armstrong has a related form in Armstrang.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Armstrong
- Armstrong Oko-FlexIrish association football playerborn 2002
- Armstrong SperryAmerican writer and illustrator (1897-1976)
- Armstrong WilliamsAmerican political writerborn 1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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