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Armistead vs Armond

American parents have registered 4,352 Armonds since 1880, against 62 Armisteads. Armond is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Armistead 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

Armond has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1887 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1909, when Armistead had 6 and Armond had 6.

Side by side

  Armistead Armond
Total US births 624,352
Most in one year 971
Babies in 2025 under 518
Estimated living today 42,600
Median age today 6836
Peak year 19261924
Best rank 2,904th boys797th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,208th
First recorded 19091887
Girls / boys 0 / 620 / 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 Armisteads alive today are over 68; half the Armonds are over 36. That is 32 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: Armistead and Armond.