Girls' name · since 1910
Armenta
197 babies named Armenta in U.S. Social Security records since 1910, with the highest year being 1914. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #19,937 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 197
- born since 1910
- 1920s
- peak decade
Armenta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 197 have been recorded since 1910.
Armenta has 197 recorded births among girls since 1910, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1910 to 1968.
- #19,937 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 197 born since 1910
- 1920s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Armenta ranks #19,937 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 197 born since 1910, peaking in the 1920s.
- #19,937 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 197
- born since 1910
- 1920s
- peak decade
Armenta's 197 recorded births place it above 72.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Armenta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Armenta's full recorded timeline at 1934, 43% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 57% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1910, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1914 peak of 11 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Armenta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1910–1968
- Peak year (1914)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 59 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 1968.
197 total births across 59 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1914 with 11 births in a single year.
Armenta by decade
1920s is the heaviest window (54 births, 27% of the file).
1920s was Armenta's strongest decade.
54 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 27% of all-time use.
Armenta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
43 births
- 1920s
1920s
54 births
- 1930s
1930s
41 births
- 1940s 20
1940s
20 births
- 1950s
1950s
23 births
- 1960s 16
1960s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 54 births (27% of all-time use).
Armenta decade highlights
- Peak decade 54 births
- Runner-up 43 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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What to do with Armenta's data
- Armenta's decade-level peak was the 1920s (54 total births); usage has since declined to 16 in the 1960s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Armenta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1914)
Similar record span (~58 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1910–1968 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Armenta draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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