Almer vs Almon
American parents have registered 1,628 Almons since 1880, against 881 Almers. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Almer 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 94 years and Almer for 13 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.
- 1880–1901 Almon ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1904–1906 Almer ahead
- 1912–2006 Almon ahead, apart from 3 short spells
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Almer | Almon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 881 | 1,628 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 59 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 110 | 380 |
| Median age today | 80 | 65 |
| Peak year | 1918 | 1918 |
| Best rank | 1,446th boys | 855th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 322 / 559 | 18 / 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 Almers alive today are over 80; half the Almons are over 65. That is 15 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 Almon.