Almer vs Almond

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Almer Almond

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 78 years in which either name was published, Almer for 55 years and Almond for 23 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.

• 1880–1951 Almer ahead, apart from 6 short spells
• 1955–1979 Almond ahead, apart from one short spell

16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Almers alive today are over 80; half the Almonds are over 69. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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