Armando
given name · Latin script
Meaning: gerund of armar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɾmando/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Armando is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 8th most common given name.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 774(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 816
- PEPeru≈1 in 867
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #450 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 488 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 774 (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
gerund of armar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Armando, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Armando 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #239 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 816 | — | Armando | 99 |
| US United States | #601 | 102,571 | 1 in 3.2K | 102K | Armando | 488 |
| AR Argentina | #169 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 2.2K | Armando | 138 |
| BR Brazil | #430 | 40,557 | 1 in 5.2K | 54K | Armando | 182 |
| CO Colombia | #128 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 29 | Armando | 162 |
| VE Venezuela | #68 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 774 | — | Armando | 111 |
| PE Peru | #94 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 867 | — | Armando | 113 |
| HN Honduras | #8 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Armando | 58 |
| PY Paraguay | #941 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Armando | 50 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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)
Armando 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 Spanish, Germánico: "hombre audaz" o "héroe del ejército"; de hard/man o Hariman.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
In Italian, variante de Armano, via fr. Armand
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, Forme italienne et hispanique d’Armand, d’origine germanique; lié à la force et à la protection.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, männl. Vom., itaHenische und spanische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Conductor de huestes
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Armando Trovajolib. 1917ITItalian film composer and pianist (1917-2013)
- Armando Nannuzzib. 1925ITItalian cinematographer (1925–2001)
- Chick Coreab. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer (1941-2021)
- Armando Guebuzab. 1943MZ3rd President of Mozambique
- Diego Maradonab. 1960ARnot in their usual nameArgentine football player and manager (1960–2020)
- Armando Iannuccib. 1963GBScottish comedian, film director and producer
- Armando Gonçalves Teixeirab. 1976PTPortuguese football manager and former player
- Perez Hiltonb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and blogger
- Nayib Bukeleb. 1981SVnot in their usual namePresident of El Salvador since 2019
- Mr. 305b. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 1981)
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 104 sources across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 102K | #545 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 54K | #745 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 41K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40K | #662 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 538 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 271 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 189 | #545 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 127 | #662 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 89 | #801 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 29 | #92 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 are other forms of the name Armando?
- In the etymology graph, German, Herman and Hermann are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Armando mean, and where does it come from?
- gerund of armar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Armando a male or female name?
- Armando 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.
- How do you pronounce Armando?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾmando/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- How common is the name Armando?
- In the United States, the national register counted 102,571 people named Armando in 2020, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Armando compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Armando is the 239th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Armando have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 134 thousand people named Armando in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled armando.
What do you want to know about Armando?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/armandoThe 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, “Armando” — the 239th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.