Armenia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Arménia in PT Portugal and Armènia in IT Italy.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 7 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◐

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

• English surname6.4K records spelled Armenia15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Canada, Belgium

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Armenìa, Arménia, Armènia, Armenien, Armeniā

• a separate name435 records spelled Armenia3 spellings in the group

  Also written Armenìa

• French given name391 records spelled Armenia9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France

  Also written Arménia, Armenie, Armenìa, Armeniá, Armenié

• a separate name227 records spelled Armenia3 spellings in the group

  Also written Arménia, Armênia

• Armenian given name195 records spelled Armenia4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Armenia, United States, Russia

  Also written Hayastan, Հայաստան, Armênia

• Italian surname160 records spelled Armenia9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy

  Also written Armenìa, Armenià, Armènia, Armènià, Armenïa

38 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●

Armenia 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, I. republic. Asia

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In English, city. Colombia

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Italian, feminino de Armenio

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In English, Ancient kingdom in the Armenian Highland southeast of Black Sea and southwest of Caspian Sea; area now divided between Turkey, Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Iran.

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

• In Latin, Armenia (an ancient Armenian kingdom in eastern Anatolia, in modern eastern Turkey and Armenia)

  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) — 23 years between 1887–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Armenia S. Whiteb. 1817USAmerican suffragist, philanthropist, reformer
• Armenia Balduccib. 1933ITItalian actress, film director and screenwriter (1933–2022)
• Ilaria ArmeniaESresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2854-2907

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 · 188 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Armenia?

We estimate roughly 879 people bear Armenia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Armenia have the most bearers?

Armenia is most frequently recorded in Colombia, where it is most often spelled armenia.

What does the name Armenia mean?

Recorded meaning: Armenia (a country in the South Caucasus region of Asia, sometimes considered to belong politically to Europe)