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Armina vs Armon

American parents have registered 3,958 Armons since 1880, against 333 Arminas. Armon is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Armina 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 118 years in which either name was published, Armon for 115 years and Armina for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Armina Armon
Total US births 3333,958
Most in one year 14143
Babies in 2025 1384
Estimated living today 2303,300
Median age today 1120
Peak year 20192023
Best rank 7,716th girls1,328th boys
Rank in 2025 7,885th1,867th
First recorded 18891902
Girls / boys 333 / 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 Armons alive today are over 20; half the Arminas are over 11. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Armina Armon
France 7025
England and Wales 634

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Armina and Armon.