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Arman vs Armanii

American parents have registered 4,635 Armans since 1880, against 662 Armaniis. Arman is still ahead, with 168 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arman against Armanii, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arman Armanii

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

Arman has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Arman had 126 and Armanii had 55.

Side by side

  Arman Armanii
Total US births 4,635662
Most in one year 16855
Babies in 2025 16836
Estimated living today 4,500660
Median age today 187
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 1,204th boys3,984th girls
Rank in 2025 1,204th5,917th
First recorded 19171997
Girls / boys 0 / 4,635430 / 232

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 Armans alive today are over 18; half the Armaniis are over 7. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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