Armida

Where Armida comes from

Armida 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.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    Armida Barelli born
    Italian activist, editor
  2. 1909
    First appearance
    #1,957 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1911
    Armida born
    American actress
  4. 1931
    Peak, #784
    74 babies named Armida — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1943
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,395.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Armida Barelli · Italian activist, editor, 1882–1952
  • Armida · American actress, 1911–1989
  • Armida Alisjahbana · Executive Secretary of the United Nations ESCAP, born 1960
  • Armida Siguion-Reyna · Filipina actress and singer, 1930–2019
  • Armida Parsi-Pettinella · Italian mezzo-soprano died 1949, 1868–1949

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.