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Almeda vs Almedia

American parents have registered 4,402 Almedas since 1880, against 530 Almedias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Almeda against Almedia, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Almeda Almedia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Almeda for 106 years and Almedia for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Almeda Almedia
Total US births 4,402530
Most in one year 13519
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 760110
Median age today 7478
Peak year 19211922
Best rank 636th girls2,027th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 4,402 / 0530 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Almedias alive today are over 78; half the Almedas are over 74. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Almeda and Almedia.