Armande
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Feminine form of Armand, from Germanic roots linked to 'army' and 'man'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aʁmɑ̃d/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Armande is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Côte d’Ivoire than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 50K
- CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 9.7K
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.
- Côte d’Ivoire (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Côte d’Ivoire, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Feminine form of Armand, from Germanic roots linked to 'army' and 'man'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Armande is read(measured from records)
Armande is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French82%
Feminine form of Armand, from Germanic roots linked to 'army' and 'man'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Forme féminine d’Armand, d’origine germanique; associé à l’idée de force et de protection.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Germanic origin, meaning "virile".
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English13%
French feminine form of Armand; woman of the army.
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The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Armande 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Armande | 8 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 11K | Armande | 178 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Armande | 7 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Armande | 8 |
| BJ Benin | #634 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Armande | 7 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Armande | 18 |
| US United States | — | 146 | 1 in 2.3M | 104 | Armande | 53 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Armande is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, vocative masculine singular of armandus
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)
- Armande Béjartb. 1650FRFrench stage actress (c.1650-1700)
- Armande de La Tour d'Auvergneb. 1697FRFrench princess (1697-1717)
- Armande de Polignacb. 1876FRcomposer (1876-1962)
- Madeleine Riffaudb. 1924FRnot in their usual nameFrench poet (1924–2024)
- Armande Oswaldb. 1940CHSwiss painter
- Armande Altaïb. 1944FRFrench singer
- Armande Gobry-Valleb. 1953FRFrench writer
- Marie-Agnès Gillotb. 1975FRnot in their usual nameFrench ballet dancer and choreographer
- Armande Boulangerb. 1997FRFrench actress
- Armande Chollat-Namyfilm cinematographer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Armande mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of Armand, from Germanic roots linked to 'army' and 'man'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Armande?
- A machine transcription gives /aʁmɑ̃d/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Armande a male or female name?
- Armande is a female 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 Armande have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Armande in Côte d’Ivoire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled armande.
- How common is the name Armande?
- In the United States, the national register counted 146 people named Armande in 2020, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Armande compared with other names?
- In Benin, Armande is the 634th most common given name of 2,017 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/armandeThe 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, “Armande” — the 634th most common given name in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.