Almon
Almon is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 442nd, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191859 births
- Best rank
- #442in 1881
- Since 1880
- 1,610people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,610 boys have been named Almon in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 59 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 59 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Almon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 78 | |
| 1890s | 42 | |
| 1900s | 67 | |
| 1910s | 309 | |
| 1920s | 381 | |
| 1930s | 238 | |
| 1940s | 167 | |
| 1950s | 113 | |
| 1960s | 76 | |
| 1970s | 43 | |
| 1980s | 57 | |
| 1990s | 28 | |
| 2000s | 11 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Almon was the 857th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Almon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adelbertpeak 1918
- Mertonpeak 1920
- Burleypeak 1921
- Corneliouspeak 1921
- Evertpeak 1923
- Lemuelpeak 1921
- Dolphuspeak 1930
- Lymanpeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.