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Armanda vs Armond

American parents have registered 4,352 Armonds since 1880, against 1,281 Armandas. Armond is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Armanda against Armond, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Armanda Armond

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 127 years in which either name was published, Armond for 119 years and Armanda for 8 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

8 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Armanda Armond
Total US births 1,2814,352
Most in one year 3271
Babies in 2025 under 518
Estimated living today 8402,600
Median age today 4736
Peak year 19811924
Best rank 2,774th girls797th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,208th
First recorded 19001887
Girls / boys 1,281 / 00 / 4,352

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 Armandas alive today are over 47; half the Armonds are over 36. 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: Armanda and Armond.