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Aloma vs Alondra

American parents have registered 42,421 Alondras since 1880, against 847 Alomas. Alondra is still ahead, with 417 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aloma against Alondra, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aloma Alondra

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 97 years in which either name was published, Alondra for 62 years and Aloma for 35 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Aloma Alondra
Total US births 84742,421
Most in one year 1472,728
Babies in 2025 under 5417
Estimated living today 49042,000
Median age today 7820
Peak year 19422005
Best rank 616th girls120th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked680th
First recorded 19251959
Girls / boys 847 / 042,299 / 122

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 Alomas alive today are over 78; half the Alondras are over 20. That is 58 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aloma Alondra
France 1010
England and Wales 39

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aloma and Alondra.