The Arm surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 283 people carried this name — #69,392 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,000,000 people counted. That is up 22% from 232 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
471 people named Arm live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 55 people named Arm.
14 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Arm,
with a public archive behind them.
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René Arm 1925–1942
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Roger Arm 1946–
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Maire Arm 1962– · lawyer
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Emili Arm 1993– · figure skating judge
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Allisyn Snyder 1996– · singer
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Arm.
- Aristide 509 · U.S. census
- Arizzi 126 · U.S. census
- Arjona 1,388 · U.S. census
- Arlen 379 · U.S. census
- Arlet 146 · U.S. census
- Arlin 201 · U.S. census
- Arman 1,146 · U.S. census
- Armand 2,841 · U.S. census
- Armando 560 · U.S. census
- Armani 318 · U.S. census
- Armanini 202 · U.S. census
- Armant 223 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Arm is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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