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Armando vs Armida

American parents have registered 76,887 Armandos since 1880, against 3,033 Armidas. Armando is still ahead, with 538 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Armando against Armida, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Armando Armida

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

Armando has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1909, when Armando had 12 and Armida had 6.

Side by side

  Armando Armida
Total US births 76,8873,033
Most in one year 1,51278
Babies in 2025 538under 5
Estimated living today 65,0001,800
Median age today 3262
Peak year 19971930
Best rank 205th boys800th girls
Rank in 2025 556thunranked
First recorded 19061909
Girls / boys 372 / 76,5153,033 / 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 Armidas alive today are over 62; half the Armandos are over 32. That is 30 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Armando Armida
France 1,56550

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