Ärmel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ärmel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Name of a Breton saint, from Late Latin Armagilus, of Celtic origin; compare Welsh Arthfael (literally “bear-prince”).
- USUnited States1 in 697K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania1 in 21K
- SISlovenia1 in 124K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
477 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Armel in US United States, CM Cameroon, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Name of a Breton saint, from Late Latin Armagilus, of Celtic origin; compare Welsh Arthfael (literally “bear-prince”).
Sources 2
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ärmel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 477 | 1 in 697K | 631 | Armel | 149 |
| AL Albania | — | 147 | 1 in 21K | 142 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 35 | 1 in 292K | 35 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 26 | 1 in 665K | 26 | Armel | 16 |
| CM Cameroon | #711 | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Armel | 19 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 17 | 1 in 124K | 17 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8 | 1 in 637K | 8 | — | — |
477 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population given names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ärmel mean, and where does it come from?
- Name of a Breton saint, from Late Latin Armagilus, of Celtic origin; compare Welsh Arthfael (literally “bear-prince”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Ärmel a male or female name?
- Ärmel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ärmel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 477 people named Ärmel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled armel.
- Where is Ärmel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ärmel is densest in Albania — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ärmel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 477 people named Ärmel in 2020, about 1 in 697 thousand residents.
- How common is Ärmel compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Ärmel is the 711th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A4rmelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ärmel” — the 711th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.