Armand

Where Armand comes from

Armand hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1841
    Armand Fallières born
    9th president of France
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1918
    Peak, #291
    351 babies named Armand — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1935
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #435.
  5. 1999
    Armand Duplantis born
    Swedish-American pole vaulter
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Armand Fallières · 9th president of France, 1841–1931
  • Armand Duplantis · Swedish-American pole vaulter, born 1999
  • Armand Traoré · Senegalese-French footballer, born 1989
  • Armand Guillaumin · French painter, 1841–1927
  • Armand Assante · American actor, born 1949

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.