Elmina vs Elmon
American parents have registered 834 Elminas since 1880, against 591 Elmons. Elmina is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Elmina Elmon
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 106 years in which either name was published, Elmina for 68 years and Elmon for 38 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1880–1920 Elmina ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1921–1975 Elmon ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1982–2025 Elmina ahead
9 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Elmina | Elmon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 834 | 591 |
| Most in one year | 26 | 27 |
| Babies in 2025 | 12 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 280 | 120 |
| Median age today | 19 | 74 |
| Peak year | 1916 | 1922 |
| Best rank | 1,445th girls | 1,434th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,362nd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1909 |
| Girls / boys | 834 / 0 | 0 / 591 |
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 Elmons alive today are over 74; half the Elminas are over 19. That is 55 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: Elmina and Elmon.