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Orma vs Ormond

American parents have registered 699 Ormas since 1880, against 513 Ormonds. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Orma against Ormond, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Orma Ormond

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 67 years in which either name was published, Orma for 49 years and Ormond for 18 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Orma Ormond
Total US births 699513
Most in one year 3222
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 80110
Median age today 8469
Peak year 19211917
Best rank 1,437th girls1,528th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18901903
Girls / boys 699 / 00 / 513

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 Ormas alive today are over 84; half the Ormonds are over 69. That is 15 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: Orma and Ormond.