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Armond vs Armstead

American parents have registered 4,352 Armonds since 1880, against 416 Armsteads. Armond is still ahead, with 18 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Armond Armstead

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 126 years in which either name was published, Armond for 123 years and Armstead for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Armond Armstead
Total US births 4,352416
Most in one year 7123
Babies in 2025 18under 5
Estimated living today 2,60090
Median age today 3672
Peak year 19241928
Best rank 797th boys1,569th boys
Rank in 2025 5,208thunranked
First recorded 18871882
Girls / boys 0 / 4,3520 / 416

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 Armsteads alive today are over 72; half the Armonds are over 36. That is 36 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: Armond and Armstead.