Almer vs Almira
American parents have registered 1,821 Almiras since 1880, against 881 Almers. Almira is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Almer Almira
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 133 years in which either name was published, Almira for 118 years and Almer for 15 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1880–1927 Almira ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1932–1934 Almer ahead
- 1942–2025 Almira ahead, apart from 3 short spells
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Almer | Almira | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 881 | 1,821 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 48 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 9 |
| Estimated living today | 110 | 650 |
| Median age today | 80 | 26 |
| Peak year | 1918 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 1,446th boys | 1,013th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 10,107th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 322 / 559 | 1,821 / 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 Almers alive today are over 80; half the Almiras are over 26. That is 54 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: Almer and Almira.