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Almedia vs Almon

American parents have registered 1,628 Almons since 1880, against 530 Almedias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Almedia against Almon, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Almedia Almon

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 111 years in which either name was published, Almon for 100 years and Almedia for 11 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Almedia Almon
Total US births 5301,628
Most in one year 1959
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 110380
Median age today 7865
Peak year 19221918
Best rank 2,027th girls855th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18811880
Girls / boys 530 / 018 / 1,610

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 Almons are over 65. That is 13 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: Almedia and Almon.