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Almeda vs Almond

American parents have registered 4,402 Almedas since 1880, against 617 Almonds. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Almeda Almond

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 109 years in which either name was published, Almeda for 106 years and Almond for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Almeda Almond
Total US births 4,402617
Most in one year 13526
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 760120
Median age today 7469
Peak year 19211919
Best rank 636th girls1,408th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18801882
Girls / boys 4,402 / 00 / 617

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 Almedas alive today are over 74; half the Almonds are over 69. That is 5 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 Almond.