Armistead
Armistead was last recorded in 1957, when 5 babies were given it; 62 Americans have been recorded with it between 1909 and 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Armistead by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Armistead?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,013, in 1957; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1926, the peak
Armistead peaked in 1926, when 9 boys were given it, #2,918 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 5 | #4,013 | 2.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,238 | 4.4 |
| 1926 | 9 | #2,918 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,520 | 6.2 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,507 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,417 | 7.1 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,535 | 6.7 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,286 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,843 | 9.8 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,282 | 36.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Armistead a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Armistead has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Armistead: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Armistead, and how old are they?
An estimated 4 Americans named Armistead and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 103 people named Armistead (5 women and girls, 98 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20.6 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 478 babies since 1880, Armistead is the second most given (13% 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.
More about Armistead and names like it
- Compare Armistead and ArmsteadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArmistead peaked in 1926.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Armistead since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Armistead.
- Names starting with AMost given first.