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army Name Meaning and History

Probably an Americanized form of French Armée, literally ‘armed’, hence a byname for a soldier or guard.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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army Family Facts

Distribution of army Families in the US in 1920
Number of army families
 14-25
 5-13
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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