Almer
Almer was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 881 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Almer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Almer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Almer is “a male given name from Old English.”
Rare variant of Aylmer.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Almer?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,308, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1924, the peak
Almer peaked in 1924, when 37 babies were given it (23 boys, #1,629 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,308 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,743 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 5 | #4,045 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,972 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 10 | #2,594 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 6 | #3,430 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 8 | #2,847 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 7 | #3,028 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 17 | #1,821 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 11 | #2,270 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 6 | #4,034 | 5 | #3,342 |
| 1944 | under 5 | 6 | #3,115 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 8 | #2,740 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #2,945 | |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,258 | 6 | #3,140 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,367 | 12 | #2,082 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,437 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,580 | 8 | #2,652 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,810 | 10 | #2,333 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,707 | 11 | #2,190 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 7 | #2,956 | |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,296 | 11 | #2,268 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,873 | 6 | #3,277 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,576 | 10 | #2,467 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,351 | 18 | #1,697 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,849 | 5 | #4,012 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,927 | 13 | #2,200 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,502 | 13 | #2,272 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,880 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,878 | 15 | #2,077 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,670 | 19 | #1,808 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,515 | 23 | #1,629 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,920 | 11 | #2,617 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,386 | 10 | #2,803 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,637 | 15 | #2,153 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,467 | 21 | #1,696 |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,267 | 16 | #1,973 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,248 | 25 | #1,447 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,099 | 24 | #1,439 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,251 | 17 | #1,772 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,145 | 14 | #1,970 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,198 | 13 | #1,777 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,890 | 12 | #1,583 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,985 | 13 | #1,353 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,200 | 7 | #1,389 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,966 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,359 | 9 | #947 |
| 1906 | under 5 | 11 | #753 | |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,702 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,892 | 8 | #878 |
| 1902 | under 5 | 5 | #1,143 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 5 | #1,062 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 6 | #930 | |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,706 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 6 | #982 | |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,341 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 8 | #683 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 6 | #851 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 5 | #946 | |
| 1880 | under 5 | 5 | #913 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Almer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 881 Americans recorded as Almer, 37% are girls and 63% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Almer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Almer, and how old are they?
An estimated 102 Americans named Almer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (12% of everyone recorded); the median is 81 years old and half are between 73 and 87. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 312 people named Almer (69 women and girls, 243 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 160 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,328 babies since 1880, Almer is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 none of their 29 babies recorded by SSA was a Almer (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Almer
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Almer and names like it
- Compare Almer and AlmirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAlmer peaked in 1924.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Almer since 1910.
- Old English namesWiktionary’s origin for Almer: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Almer.
- The names of the Silent GenerationMost people named Almer alive today were born 1928-1945.
- Names starting with AMost given first.