Girls' name · since 1898
Armetta
169 babies named Armetta in U.S. Social Security records since 1898, with the highest year being 1919. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #21,528 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 169
- born since 1898
- 1920s
- peak decade
Armetta is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 169 have been recorded since 1898.
Armetta has 169 recorded births among girls since 1898, 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 1898 to 1964.
- #21,528 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 169 born since 1898
- 1920s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Armetta ranks #21,528 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 169 born since 1898, peaking in the 1920s.
- #21,528 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 169
- born since 1898
- 1920s
- peak decade
Armetta's 169 recorded births place it above 70.16% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Armetta's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Armetta's full recorded timeline at 1933, 53% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 47% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1898, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1919 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Armetta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1898–1964
- Peak year (1919)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 67 years of records
Armetta by decade
1920s is the heaviest window (46 births, 27% of the file).
1920s was Armetta's strongest decade.
46 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 27% of all-time use.
Armetta births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1890s 5
1890s
5 births
- 1910s
1910s
29 births
- 1920s
1920s
46 births
- 1930s
1930s
21 births
- 1940s
1940s
33 births
- 1950s
1950s
22 births
- 1960s 13
1960s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 46 births (27% of all-time use).
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- Armetta's decade-level peak was the 1920s (46 total births); usage has since declined to 13 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 Armetta: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1919)
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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, 1898–1964 (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 Armetta 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.