Almira
Almira was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,146 among girls’ names; 1,821 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Almira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Almira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Almira is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of mainly 18th and 19th century usage.”
Coined name, possibly inspired by Elmira, of a queen of Castile in C. F. Handel’s opera Almira (1705) to an Italian [Term?] libretto.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Almira?
#10,146 among girls’ names, 2025
Almira fell from #7,642 in 2015 to #10,146 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 5.6 per million.
48 babies in 1917, the peak
Almira peaked in 1917, when 48 girls were given it, #1,014 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,146 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,991 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,177 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,650 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,281 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 13 | #7,992 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,619 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,427 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,046 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,195 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (131)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,642 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,662 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,050 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,267 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,229 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,310 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,353 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,550 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,750 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,647 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,155 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,978 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,019 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,255 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,067 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,290 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,359 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,611 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,231 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,264 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,153 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,201 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,624 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,007 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,272 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,306 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,629 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,068 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #5,985 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,820 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,384 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,578 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,722 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #3,966 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,355 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,449 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,884 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,390 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,627 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,866 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,990 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,401 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,572 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,594 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,737 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,098 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,571 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,163 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,239 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,549 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,876 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,960 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,831 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,468 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,676 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,270 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,277 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,284 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 32 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 48 | #1,014 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 36 | #1,189 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 37 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,150 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 24 | #1,056 | 0.04 |
| 1911 | 20 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 17 | #1,072 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 18 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,262 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,388 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 17 | #900 | 0.06 |
| 1904 | 17 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 13 | #971 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 18 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 19 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 9 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1898 | 17 | #822 | 0.07 |
| 1897 | 23 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1896 | 12 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 14 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 12 | #907 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 14 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 16 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 11 | #841 | 0.06 |
| 1890 | 20 | #580 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 11 | #803 | 0.06 |
| 1888 | 14 | #691 | 0.08 |
| 1887 | 8 | #863 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 12 | #659 | 0.08 |
| 1885 | 13 | #610 | 0.10 |
| 1884 | 15 | #543 | 0.12 |
| 1883 | 15 | #500 | 0.13 |
| 1882 | 7 | #743 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 10 | #540 | 0.11 |
| 1880 | 8 | #629 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Almira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Almira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 131 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Almira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Almira, and how old are they?
An estimated 639 Americans named Almira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 13 and 63. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,281 people named Almira (1,276 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 642 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 2,030 babies since 1880, Almira is the most given (90% of them).
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 Almira
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 Almira and names like it
- Compare Almira and AlmyraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAlmira peaked in 1917.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Almira since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Almira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Almira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Almira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.