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Hermano is the Portuguese and Spanish form of Herman (in Spanish, it is barely used because it coincides with the word hermano, "brother", that is why it is more common, even being very unusual, the form Hermán).

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Armando (again in Portuguese and in Spanish) come from the French Armand, from Germanic origin. It can come from the Germanic elements hart/hard, "hard, strong", and mann, "man", or from hari, "army", and mann (and be, in this case, a variant of Hermann).

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