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Armen vs Armond

American parents have registered 4,352 Armonds since 1880, against 2,144 Armens. But in 2025 it was Armen that was commoner, 38 babies to 18.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Armen 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 123 years in which either name was published, Armond for 109 years and Armen for 14 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.

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

Side by side

  Armen Armond
Total US births 2,1444,352
Most in one year 4771
Babies in 2025 3818
Estimated living today 1,7002,600
Median age today 2736
Peak year 20071924
Best rank 2,602nd boys797th boys
Rank in 2025 3,128th5,208th
First recorded 19141887
Girls / boys 5 / 2,1390 / 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 Armonds alive today are over 36; half the Armens are over 27. That is 9 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: Armen and Armond.