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Almanzo vs Almon

American parents have registered 1,628 Almons since 1880, against 28 Almanzos. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Almanzo against Almon, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Almanzo Almon

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 108 years in which either name was published, Almon for 104 years and Almanzo for 4 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Almanzo Almon
Total US births 281,628
Most in one year 1259
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 30380
Median age today 1465
Peak year 19801918
Best rank 3,430th boys855th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19801880
Girls / boys 0 / 2818 / 1,610

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 Almons alive today are over 65; half the Almanzos are over 14. That is 51 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 Almon.