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Armando vs Armanii

American parents have registered 76,887 Armandos since 1880, against 662 Armaniis. Armando is still ahead, with 538 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Armando against Armanii, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Armando 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

Armando has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1906 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2021, when Armando had 515 and Armanii had 53.

Side by side

  Armando Armanii
Total US births 76,887662
Most in one year 1,51255
Babies in 2025 53836
Estimated living today 65,000660
Median age today 327
Peak year 19972023
Best rank 205th boys3,984th girls
Rank in 2025 556th5,917th
First recorded 19061997
Girls / boys 372 / 76,515430 / 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 Armandos alive today are over 32; half the Armaniis are over 7. That is 25 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: Armando and Armanii.