The name honours Gianluca Armellino (born 1962) of Millesimo (Liguria, Italy). Mr. Armellino is an avid and sophisticated researcher and systematic collector specializing in the minerals of Liguria and other specific localities, with specimens only personally collected. He is the discoverer of this new species and the co-discoverer of poppiite, cortesognoite, molinelloite and piccoliite. Mr. Armellino is also the one who first found more than 80 mineral species new for Italian regions. Some of them (aluminosugilite, arsenogoyazite, bariopharmacoalumite, barnesite, brandtite, calderónite, čechite, franciscanite, gageite, hummerite, natrodufrénite, norrishite, pyrochroite, roscoelite, schröckingerite, talmessite, and wakefieldite-(Y)) represented the first discovery for Italy or Europe.