Variant of Armand, from Germanic 'heri-man' meaning army man or soldier.
Armond is a variant of Armand, the French form of Hermann, from the Old High German "Harimann" — a compound of "hari" (army, host) and "mann" (man), yielding the martial meaning "army man" or "soldier." Hermann was a name of genuine historical consequence in Germanic tradition: the most famous early bearer was Arminius (Hermann), the Cheruscan chieftain who led the Germanic tribes to a decisive victory over three Roman legions in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, an event that permanently halted Roman expansion into northern Europe.
That origin gives Armond a battlefield lineage stretching back two millennia. The French form Armand became fashionable in aristocratic circles during the 17th and 18th centuries, most famously worn by the powerful Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, known to history as Cardinal Richelieu, the architect of French absolutism who served Louis XIII and whose scheming presence looms over Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers. Armand also appears as a romantic lead in La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, a role so associated with passionate, doomed love that it crossed into opera as the character Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata.
The Armond spelling, with its final "d" slightly softening the sharp French "d" sound into something more Anglo-American, has been in use particularly in the American South and in African American naming traditions, where it carries both European elegance and a distinct individual character. It is a name that sounds confident without aggression, cultured without stiffness, and carries within it a soldier's roots and a romantic's literary associations — a rare and appealing combination.