Popularity: The name Arminda ranked 3000th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

Though this name appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a small percentage of the general population.

Narrative: Its first known use was for a character in the epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata (''Jerusalem Liberated''), written in 1575 by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso.