Almeta
Almeta is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 845th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192469 births
- Best rank
- #845in 1910
- Since 1884
- 2,241people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,241 girls have been named Almeta in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 69 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 69 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Almeta | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 12 | |
| 1890s | 29 | |
| 1900s | 138 | |
| 1910s | 377 | |
| 1920s | 549 | |
| 1930s | 428 | |
| 1940s | 276 | |
| 1950s | 206 | |
| 1960s | 102 | |
| 1970s | 83 | |
| 1980s | 41 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Almeta was the 914th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Almeta
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arvellapeak 1926
- Trulapeak 1923
- Mozellapeak 1920
- Edrispeak 1915
- Ceolapeak 1924
- Claricepeak 1921
- Theolapeak 1924
- Refugiapeak 1923
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.