# Armas (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/armas/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 72 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 72 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 6 | 2,513 |
| 1915 | 7 | 3,104 |
| 1916 | 8 | 2,938 |
| 1917 | 15 | 1,992 |
| 1918 | 11 | 2,553 |
| 1919 | 9 | 2,892 |
| 1920 | 5 | 4,328 |
| 1921 | 6 | 3,893 |
| 1925 | 5 | 4,236 |

## People named Armas

- Armas Toivonen, Finnish athletics competitor (born 1899)
- Armas Taipale, athletics competitor (1890-1976)
- Armas Launis, Finnish composer (1884–1959)
- Armas Järnefelt, Finnish composer and conductor (1869–1958)
- Armas Lindgren, Finnish architect (1874–1929)
- Armas Otto Väisänen, Finnish ethnographer (1890-1969)
- Armas Äikiä, Finnish writer (1904-1965)
- Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist (1878–1926)
- Edvin Laine, Finnish film director (1905–1989)
- Aarne Arvonen, Finnish supercentenarian (1897–2009)
- Aarne Saarinen, Finnish politician (1913-2004)
- Lauri Ihalainen, Finnish politician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.