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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • German : Warrior; variation of Herman

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : from Latin armenta ‘herd(s)’, applied to cattle and horses and, by extension, to places and persons involved with them, hence either an occupational name for a herdsman or a topographic name for someone who lived at a place where cattle or horses were raised.

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