Message: "American women" - Behind the Name

American women

by Armista Ann (guest)

4/24/2018, 10:02 PM

Hi! My name is Armista Ann. I live in southern Alabama and was born in 1976. My mother and father chose my name as a namesake for my grandmother's (mother's side) much beloved sister who lived in Kansas and passed sometime near my birth. I have never heard of any other with my name and am curious to know if I'm literally the only Armista living in America? Or the world, even?! Does anybody know how I could learn this information?

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- ClaudiaS +2

4/25/2018, 7:14 AM

One very simple way is to use Google. The first few pages of Google show one obituary for an Armista who died in 2011, another who died in 2016, and living Armistas in California, Connecticut, and Mississippi. So you are not the only one, though it does seem to be an extremely rare name.

- Sabertooth +1

5/2/2018, 4:52 PM

Facebook is good for that, too.

I also found a male form, Armistus, and a surname form (probably male, too), Armisto.

The Bing Translator says "armista" is Italian for "The Army." As a name, it probably means "woman soldier" like "GI Jane."

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- ClaudiaS

5/4/2018, 6:39 AM

It just occurred to me that, depending on her age, the grandmother's sister Armista may have been named for the "Armistice" (the ending of World War I). Was she born on or soon after November 11, 1918?

- Armista Ann (guest)

4/24/2018, 10:04 PM

I apologize for not including my email, Macolem04@gmail.com and my grandmother's family maiden name was Pendergrass. That is all, thank you!

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