girls:
372 births since 1935
#5344 (6th percentile)
boys:
75.4k births since 1906
#378 (92nd percentile)
overall:
75.8k births since 1906
#827 (89th percentile)
The name Armando is the #827 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 75,819 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 89.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #378 (91.8% percentile) for all time with 75,447 births since 1906. For girls, it ranks #5,344 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 372 births since 1935.
Armando first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for boys and 1935 for girls). Birth data for Armando is available in 116 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 45 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Armando has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Armando reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 74.3% percentile (ranked #206) with 708 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 757 births per million (ranked 74.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Armando ranks #491 for boys (46.2% percentile) with 280 births per million, which is 36.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Armando reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #847) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Armando".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Armando. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.4% confident that Armando is pronounced as ahr-MAHN-doh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-MUHN-doh, at 9.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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