Armstrong

By surface analysis, arm +‎ strong. The rural municipality in Manitoba is named after politician James William Armstrong (1860 - 1928).

Armstrong

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone with strong arms.
   • 2025 May 26, Michelle Goldberg, quoting Jesse Armstrong, “From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech Right”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 May 2025:

     With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.”

2. A city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
3. A small town in the Rural City of Ararat, Victoria, Australia.
4. A number of places in Canada:
   1. A city in the Regional District of North Okanagan, British Columbia.
   2. A rural municipality of Manitoba, Canada.
   3. A township in Timiskaming District, Ontario.
   4. A rural community and First Nation settlement in Thunder Bay District, Ontario.
5. A number of places in the United States:
   1. Synonym of Termo, California.
   2. An unincorporated community in St. Johns County, Florida.
   3. An extinct town in Wilkes County, Georgia.
   4. An unincorporated community in Vermilion County, Illinois.
   5. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
   6. A minor city in Emmet County, Iowa.
   7. An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
   8. A minor city in Howard County, Missouri.
   9. A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma.
   10. A township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
   11. A township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
   12. An unincorporated community in Kenedy County, Texas.
   13. An unincorporated community in Osceola, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.

Armstrong (plural Armstrongs)

1. Ellipsis of Armstrong gun.
   • 2010, Peter G. Tsouras, A Rainbow of Blood: The Union in Peril:

     There would be a special commendation for the Royal Artillery, who were handling their Armstrongs with great precision and a speed Wolseley had never seen before in muzzle-loading guns.

• strong-arm, strongarm

From Middle Scots Armestrang.

Armstrong

1. a Scottish surname from Scots, originally a nickname for someone with strong arms; primarily referring to members of the Armstrong clan in the West and Middle Marches of the Anglo-Scottish Borders country, or their descendants