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Arman vs Arminta

American parents have registered 4,635 Armans since 1880, against 776 Armintas. Arman is still ahead, with 168 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Arman Arminta

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 131 years in which either name was published, Arminta for 70 years and Arman for 61 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Arman Arminta
Total US births 4,635776
Most in one year 16826
Babies in 2025 168under 5
Estimated living today 4,500130
Median age today 1878
Peak year 20251920
Best rank 1,204th boys1,626th girls
Rank in 2025 1,204thunranked
First recorded 19171880
Girls / boys 0 / 4,635776 / 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 Armintas alive today are over 78; half the Armans are over 18. That is 60 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: Arman and Arminta.