Almira
Almira is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 500th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191748 births
- Best rank
- #500in 1883
- Since 1880
- 1,812people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,812 girls have been named Almira in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 48 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1910s alone account for 17%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Almira | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 113 | |
| 1890s | 148 | |
| 1900s | 146 | |
| 1910s | 310 | |
| 1920s | 276 | |
| 1930s | 149 | |
| 1940s | 103 | |
| 1950s | 63 | |
| 1960s | 49 | |
| 1970s | 67 | |
| 1980s | 24 | |
| 1990s | 54 | |
| 2000s | 129 | |
| 2010s | 115 | |
| 2020s | 66 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Almira was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Almira
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Malvinapeak 1917
- Mattiepeak 1920
- Lydapeak 1916
- Addiepeak 1920
- Lenapeak 1917
- Clarapeak 1918
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Dellapeak 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.