Armand vs Arminda

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Armand Arminda

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 146 years in which either name was published, Armand for 140 years and Arminda for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

• 1880 Armand ahead
• 1881–1882 Arminda ahead
• 1883 Armand ahead
• 1884–1886 Arminda ahead
• 1887–1892 Armand ahead
• 1893 Arminda ahead
• 1894–2025 Armand ahead

Side by side

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 Armindas alive today are over 48; half the Armands are over 45. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Armand New Hampshire (20.4×), Rhode Island (17.7×), Maine (12.8×)
• Arminda Texas (9.5×), California (1.6×)

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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