Armour

#8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births

Peak · boys
1907 · 6 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
197
since 1907

Armour over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Armour has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201914peak #1,200, 1907boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1928#3,3577
1927#3,1518
1926#3,7086
1925#3,7416
1924#4,3475
1923#2,61411
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1921#2,63211
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First appearance
1907

The first year at least five boys were named Armour! It came in at #1,200, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1908–1911, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Armour is popular in 1914

No state had 5 or more boys named Armour in 1914, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Armour
Momentum · boys
Brand new
    Rise & fade · boys
    Peaked on debut
    • Debuted 1907
    • Peaked 1907 at #1,200 (6 births)
    • Births halved by 1908, 1 yr later
    Top of the charts · boys
    Never in the top 1,000
    • Top 10: never
    • Top 100: never
    • Top 1,000: never
    Share of babies · boys
    1 in 24,471
    • Highest: 1 in 24,471 boys born in 1907 were named Armour (0.00%)
    • Latest: 1 in 213,509 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
    Era · boys
    The 1920s
    • 35.5% of all boys named Armour (70) were born in this decade
    Show by decade
    DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
    1900s6#1,200 (1907)#1,200
    1910s68#1,975 (1914)#2,491
    1920s70#2,602 (1920)#3,384
    1930s22#2,742 (1934)#2,928
    1940s18#2,996 (1945)#3,210
    1950s0——
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    2020s13#8,910 (2025)#10,528

    All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

    Armour in 1914

    boys
    #1,975
    11 births · 1 in 59,524 boys

    Top boys' names in 1914

    1. #1John37,947
    2. #2William29,753
    3. #3James26,262
    4. #4Robert21,188
    5. #5Joseph18,829
    6. #6George17,602
    7. #7Charles16,937
    8. #8Edward12,319
    9. #9Frank12,002
    10. #10Walter8,962
    11. #1,975Armour11
    More about 1914

    boys

    654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 59,524 of them was named Armour, which outranked 47.5% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

    Ranked beside Armour
    1. #1,868Walden12
    2. #1,868Wally12
    3. #1,868Willy12
    4. #1,975Armour11
    5. #1,975Adrain11
    6. #1,975Ammon11
    7. #1,975Arthor11
    8. #2,101Abbie10
    9. #2,101Achille10
    10. #2,101Adams10

    Tied with 125 names at #1,975; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

    Biggest movers since 1913
    Risers
    1. ↑ 817Gilmore#1,803 → #986
    2. ↑ 647Santos#1,580 → #933
    3. ↑ 546Lorenza#1,365 → #819
    4. ↑ 534Bobby#1,441 → #907
    5. ↑ 534Gino#1,441 → #907
    Fallers
    1. ↓ 918Bernardo#950 → #1,868
    2. ↓ 692Eston#995 → #1,687
    3. ↓ 692Rolf#995 → #1,687
    4. ↓ 613Orson#995 → #1,608
    5. ↓ 458West#930 → #1,388

    Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

    See the top 100 for 1914 →