Boy
Armando
As a boy's name, Armando traces back to Spanish, where it is understood to mean "Spanish/Italian form of Armand/Herman". It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. The name's best year yet was 1997.
SpanishSpanish/Italian form of Armand/Herman
GermanicGermanic – "army man"
Births by decade
1900s
20
1910s
911
1920s
2,094
1930s
1,960
1940s
3,106
1950s
5,776
1960s
6,359
1970s
8,686
1980s
10,518
1990s
13,765
2000s
13,070
2010s
6,226
Peaked in the 1990s · 72,491 total U.S. births since 1900