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Almanzo vs Almeda

American parents have registered 4,402 Almedas since 1880, against 28 Almanzos. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Almanzo against Almeda, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Almanzo Almeda

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 109 years in which either name was published, Almeda for 105 years and Almanzo for 4 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Almanzo Almeda
Total US births 284,402
Most in one year 12135
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30760
Median age today 1474
Peak year 19801921
Best rank 3,430th boys636th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19801880
Girls / boys 0 / 284,402 / 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 Almedas alive today are over 74; half the Almanzos are over 14. That is 60 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: Almanzo and Almeda.