Almer
About 881 American babies have been named Almer since 1880, most of them around 1918. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1988. About 110 Almers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 80.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Almer boys named Almer
Girls and boys called Almer
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 322 girls and 559 boys in all, and in 1928 the split was 13 to 13.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 10 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 881
- Estimated living today
- 110
- Median age today
- 80
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 1,446th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 322 / 559
How old the living Almers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 881 babies given the name since 1880, about 110 are alive — 12 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1945 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
Rare variant of Aylmer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Almer is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Almer peaked:
Almer among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Almer | — | 16 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Almer against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.