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Almedia vs Almeta

American parents have registered 2,241 Almetas since 1880, against 530 Almedias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Almedia against Almeta, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Almedia Almeta

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 96 years in which either name was published, Almeta for 89 years and Almedia for 7 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Almedia Almeta
Total US births 5302,241
Most in one year 1969
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 110640
Median age today 7872
Peak year 19221924
Best rank 2,027th girls914th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18811884
Girls / boys 530 / 02,241 / 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 Almedias alive today are over 78; half the Almetas are over 72. That is 6 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: Almedia and Almeta.