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Armand vs Arminta

American parents have registered 15,349 Armands since 1880, against 776 Armintas. Armand is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Armand against Arminta, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Armand 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 146 years in which either name was published, Armand for 131 years and Arminta for 15 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Armand Arminta
Total US births 15,349776
Most in one year 35126
Babies in 2025 28under 5
Estimated living today 6,800130
Median age today 4578
Peak year 19181920
Best rank 291st boys1,626th girls
Rank in 2025 3,848thunranked
First recorded 18801880
Girls / boys 6 / 15,343776 / 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 Armands are over 45. That is 33 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: Armand and Arminta.