Armitage
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person who lives by a hermitage’, from Middle English ermitage ‘hermitage’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Armitage is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 82K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 304K
- DKDenmark1 in 326K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
4,063 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
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)
‘person who lives by a hermitage’, from Middle English ermitage ‘hermitage’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Armitage 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 | 4,063 | 1 in 82K | 4.1K | Armitage | 10 |
| ES Spain | 64 | 1 in 781K | 64 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 11 | 1 in 507K | 11 | — | — |
4,063 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Armitage 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 English, ince of Saragossa, so called from an Arabic term for a pos¬ session or holding. lived by a hermitage (ME, OF (h)ermitage, a deriv. of OF (h)ermite hermit, LL eremita, Gk eremites, from eremos solitary), or habitation name from some place so named.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, An English habitational surname.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Ballet dance co., NY
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, v. HERMITAGE
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Irish, Derived from the word hermitage, this English name first appears in Cos. Louth and Cork in mid-seventeenth century and has since been mainly established in north Tipperary and Offaly
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Edward Armitageb. 1817GBEnglish painter (1817–1896)
- Noel Gayb. 1898GBnot in their usual nameBritish composer (1898-1954)
- Peter Armitageb. 1924GBBritish statistician (1924–2024)
- Heather Armitageb. 1933GBBritish sprinter
- George Armitageb. 1942USAmerican film director
- Richard Lee Armitageb. 1945USAmerican diplomat and government official (1945-2025)
- Simon Armitageb. 1963GBBritish poet, playwright, and novelist (born 1963)
- David Armitageb. 1965GBBritish historian
- Richard Armitageb. 1971GBBritish actor
- Iain Armitageb. 2008USAmerican actor
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #7,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,790 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 64 | #37,771 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 64 | #37,368 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,710 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #24,909 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 11 | #43,882 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Armitage mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person who lives by a hermitage’, from Middle English ermitage ‘hermitage’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Armitage have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Armitage, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled armitage.
- Where is Armitage most common?
- Armitage is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 82 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Armitage?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,063 people named Armitage in 2010, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/armitageThe 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, “Armitage”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.