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Armella vs Armon

American parents have registered 3,958 Armons since 1880, against 763 Armellas. Armon is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Armella against Armon, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Armella 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 124 years in which either name was published, Armon for 92 years and Armella for 32 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Armella Armon
Total US births 7633,958
Most in one year 40143
Babies in 2025 684
Estimated living today 803,300
Median age today 7920
Peak year 19262023
Best rank 1,220th girls1,328th boys
Rank in 2025 13,208th1,867th
First recorded 18991902
Girls / boys 763 / 00 / 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 Armellas alive today are over 79; half the Armons are over 20. That is 59 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: Armella and Armon.