Armen vs Armon
American parents have registered 3,958 Armons since 1880, against 2,144 Armens. Armon is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Armen Armon
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 116 years in which either name was published, Armon for 92 years and Armen for 24 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1902–1945 Armon ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1950–1952 Armen ahead
- 1953–1956 Armon ahead
- 1957–1971 Armen ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1972–1980 Armon ahead
- 1981–1985 Armen ahead
- 1986–2025 Armon ahead, apart from one short spell
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Armen | Armon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,144 | 3,958 |
| Most in one year | 47 | 143 |
| Babies in 2025 | 38 | 84 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 3,300 |
| Median age today | 27 | 20 |
| Peak year | 2007 | 2023 |
| Best rank | 2,602nd boys | 1,328th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,128th | 1,867th |
| First recorded | 1914 | 1902 |
| Girls / boys | 5 / 2,139 | 0 / 3,958 |
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 Armens alive today are over 27; half the Armons are over 20. That is 7 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 | Armen | Armon |
|---|---|---|
| France | 295 | 25 |
| England and Wales | 6 | 4 |
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.
Compare something else
Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Armen and Armon.