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Arman vs Armon

American parents have registered 4,635 Armans since 1880, against 3,958 Armons. Arman is still ahead, with 168 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Arman Armon

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 115 years in which either name was published, Armon for 75 years and Arman for 40 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Arman Armon
Total US births 4,6353,958
Most in one year 168143
Babies in 2025 16884
Estimated living today 4,5003,300
Median age today 1820
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 1,204th boys1,328th boys
Rank in 2025 1,204th1,867th
First recorded 19171902
Girls / boys 0 / 4,6350 / 3,958

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 Armons alive today are over 20; half the Armans are over 18. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Arman Armon
England and Wales 1,0434
France 70525
Switzerland 117159

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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