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Almena vs Almon

American parents have registered 1,628 Almons since 1880, against 232 Almenas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Almena 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 107 years in which either name was published, Almon for 105 years and Almena for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Almena Almon
Total US births 2321,628
Most in one year 1959
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 16380
Median age today 6965
Peak year 19231918
Best rank 2,021st girls855th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18951880
Girls / boys 232 / 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 Almenas alive today are over 69; half the Almons are over 65. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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