Armas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: open-air market merchant
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɾmas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Armas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 2.1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.1K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 301 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
open-air market merchant
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Armas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #317 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Armas | 93 |
| VE Venezuela | #315 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Armas | 75 |
| ES Spain | #565 | 9,168 | 1 in 5.5K | 9.2K | Armas | 143 |
| EC Ecuador | #455 | 8,124 | 1 in 2.1K | 8.1K | Armas | 62 |
| US United States | — | 6,002 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Armas | 301 |
| NI Nicaragua | #312 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Armas | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | #116 | 651 | 1 in 5.2K | 651 | Armas | 58 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Armas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Armas är ett finskt namn med betydelsen ’älsklig; trofast’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom. finnischer Herkunft (zu finn. armas »treu«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of armō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, second-person singular past historic of armer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In krl, superseded spelling of armaš
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mercedes Pintob. 1883ESnot in their usual nameSpanish playwright, journalist and writer (1883-1976)
- Carlos Castillo Armasb. 1914GTGuatemalan President (1914-1957)
- Margarita Nolasco Armasb. 1932MXMexican anthropologist
- Dino Armasb. 1941UYUruguayan theatre director
- Tony Armasb. 1953VEVenezuelan baseball player
- Chris Armasb. 1972USAmerican soccer player and coach
- Steve Armasb. 1977USAmerican soccer player and coach
- Tony Armasb. 1978VEbaseball player
- Andrea Rubiob. 1998VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan model and beauty pageant winner
- Samuel Armasb. 1999USFamous in a picture
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Armas mean, and where does it come from?
- open-air market merchant Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Armas?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾmas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Armas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Armas in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled armas.
- How common is the name Armas?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9,168 people named Armas, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Armas compared with other names?
- In Peru, Armas is the 317th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Armas” — the 317th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.