Arman

Where Arman comes from

Arman 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. 1917
    First appearance
    #3,217 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1991
    Arman Hall born
    American sprinter
  3. 1996
    Arman Tsarukyan born
    Armenian mixed martial artist
  4. 1999
    Peak, #981
    145 babies named Arman — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Arman Tsarukyan · Armenian mixed martial artist, born 1996
  • Arman Hall · American sprinter, born 1991
  • Arman Chilmanov · Kazakhstani taekwondo practitioner, born 1984
  • Arman Karamyan · Armenian footballer, born 1979
  • Arman Adamian · Russian judoka, born 1997

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.