Armen

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Არმენ in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Armen is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name9.6K records spelled Armen35 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

  Also written Армен, Армэн, Армён, Armēn, Armèn

• Spanish given name8.2K records spelled Armen6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, Argentina, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Armén, Armeñ, Armèn, Ármen

• French given name7.2K records spelled Armen6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Armèn, Armén, Armeñ, Armên

• a separate given name1.6K records spelled Armen4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, India, United Kingdom

  Also written Armèn, Armén, Armēn

• Turkish given name1.0K records spelled Armen7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Turkmenistan, United States, Russia

  Languages: Turkish, Turkmen, Azerbaijani

  Also written Армен, Armèn, Armēn

• Finnish given name515 records spelled Armen4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, United States, Estonia, Slovenia

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

  Also written Armén

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Armen 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 Albanian, Armenian (of, from, or pertaining to Armenia, Armenians, the language or alphabet)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of armar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Danish, definite singular of arm

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, inflection of armar:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, inflection of arm:

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 109 years between 1914–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Armen Tigranianb. 1879AMArmenian composer and conductor (1879–1950)
• Armen Takhtajanb. 1910RUSoviet-Armenian botanist (1910-2009)
• Armen Alchianb. 1914USAmerican economist
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyanb. 1935RUArmenian, Soviet, Russian actor (1935-2020)
• Armen Sarkissianb. 1953AM4th President of Armenia, Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, one of the directors of Eurasia House, physicist, diplomat, politician (born 1953)
• Armen Gilliamb. 1964USAmerican basketball player (1964–2011)
• Armen Darbinyanb. 1965AMArmenian politician
• Armen Mkrtchyanb. 1973AMOlympic wrestler
• Armen Nazaryanb. 1974AMOlympic wrestler
• Armen Vardanyanb. 1982UAOlympic wrestler

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 373 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Armen?

We estimate roughly 8.4 thousand people bear Armen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Armen have the most bearers?

Armen is most frequently recorded in Armenia, where it is most often spelled armen.

How common is Armen compared with other names?

In Armenia, Armen is the 4th most common given name of 3,604 given names recorded there.

Is Armen a male or female name?

Armen 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.

What does the name Armen mean?

Recorded meaning: Armenian man; from Armenia