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Armias vs Armon

American parents have registered 3,958 Armons since 1880, against 245 Armiases. Armon is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Armias 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

Armon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1902 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Armias had 52 and Armon had 75.

Side by side

  Armias Armon
Total US births 2453,958
Most in one year 55143
Babies in 2025 2284
Estimated living today 2403,300
Median age today 420
Peak year 20192023
Best rank 2,421st boys1,328th boys
Rank in 2025 4,539th1,867th
First recorded 20191902
Girls / boys 0 / 2450 / 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 Armons alive today are over 20; half the Armiases are over 4. That is 16 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: Armias and Armon.