Armida
Just 18 women in Poland carry this name, and the birth records show no girls given it since 2000. Most Poles will never meet one. The root is Latin, from arma, "weapons".
Armida Pronunciation
Armida is pronounced ahr-MEE-dah (/arˈmida/).
What Armida means
Where Armida comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Armida comes from Latin, built on the root "arma", weapons. The name entered European reading through Torquato Tasso and his epic Gerusalemme liberata, printed in 1581. There Armida is a sorceress sent to wreck a crusader army, and her weapons are beauty and spell rather than steel. The tie to "arma" suits her.
Composers kept returning to her. Gluck set Armide, while Rossini, Haydn and Dvořák each wrote an Armida of their own. From Italian verse the name settled into Italian and Spanish use, worn by real women rather than only the enchantress on stage.
In Poland it stays rare. A teacher reading a class register might pause at it once. Polish name sources give no fixed meaning for Armida, so the honest answer points back to the Latin root, "arma", weapons.
When Armida celebrates name day
Armida appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 15 August.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Armida
1 in 1252435 women in Poland is named Armida. 18 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #10545 among female names.
Armida as a middle name
Armida is a first name for 18 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3971st, between Arja (4) and Armina (4).
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#3969 Arieta4
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#3970 Arja4
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#3971 Armida4
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#3972 Armina4
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#3973 Arti4