girls:
5 births since 1920
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1914
#2764 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1914
#5711 (26th percentile)
The name Armen is the #5,711 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,071 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 26.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,764 (39.7% percentile) for all time with 2,066 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1920.
Armen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Armen is available in 107 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 1 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 Armen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Armen reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #714) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 22 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Despite a peak around 2016, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Armen is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #876 (3.8% percentile) with 22 births per million.
For girls, Armen reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #608) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1920.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Armen".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Armen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.3% confident that Armen is pronounced as AHR-muhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-MEHN, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 R M AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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