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Armando vs Armin

American parents have registered 76,887 Armandos since 1880, against 3,317 Armins. Armando is still ahead, with 538 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Armando Armin

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 119 years in which either name was published, Armando for 118 years and Armin for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Armando Armin
Total US births 76,8873,317
Most in one year 1,51284
Babies in 2025 53873
Estimated living today 65,0002,300
Median age today 3219
Peak year 19972023
Best rank 205th boys1,875th boys
Rank in 2025 556th2,035th
First recorded 19061893
Girls / boys 372 / 76,5150 / 3,317

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 Armandos alive today are over 32; half the Armins are over 19. That is 13 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 Armin
Italy 3,382365
France 1,565290
Switzerland 287412
England and Wales 206291
Poland 68275
Belgium 35131

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 Armin.