Armstead

Last seen for boys in 1990 at #8,117

Peak · boys
1882 · 8 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
416
since 1882

Armstead over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Armstead has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201923peak #691, 1882boys
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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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1990#8,1175
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1979#6,0565
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1964#4,0395
1963#4,0485
1962#4,0335
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1958#3,5596
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1956#3,9425
1955#2,30212
1954#2,9428
1953#2,9058
1952#3,0957
1951#3,3646
1950#2,5809
1949#2,6069
1948#2,21812
1947#2,49810
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1943#2,5639
1942#2,7128
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1939#2,28810
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1937#2,9057
1936#3,5495
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1934#2,9737
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1932#2,6389
1931#2,47110
1930#2,29312
1929#2,7669
1928#1,56923
1927#2,9129
1926#2,07415
1925#3,4087
1924#2,82210
1923#2,12315
1922#2,63011
1921#3,5177
1920#2,76510
1919#2,51111
1918#3,0968
1917#2,28012
1916#2,9268
1915#3,3926
1914#2,6517
1913#2,0928
1912#2,0457
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1882#6918
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First appearance
1882

The first year at least five boys were named Armstead! It came in at #691, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1883–1895, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Armstead is popular in 1923

No state had 5 or more boys named Armstead in 1923, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Armstead
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1990
  • Biggest jump: 195 spots in 1897 (#982 → #787)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1882
  • Peaked 1882 at #691 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1883, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1896–1897
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,095
  • Highest: 1 in 14,095 boys born in 1897 were named Armstead (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 410,808 boys born in 1990 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #691 in 1882, was only 1 in 14,211 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 27.9% of all boys named Armstead (116) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s8#691 (1882)#691
1890s25#787 (1897)#923
1900s6#1,111 (1906)#1,111
1910s67#2,045 (1912)#2,624
1920s116#1,569 (1928)#2,659
1930s60#2,288 (1939)#2,731
1940s48#2,218 (1948)#2,519
1950s61#2,302 (1955)#3,086
1960s15#4,033 (1962)#4,040
1970s5#6,056 (1979)#6,056
1980s0——
1990s5#8,117 (1990)#8,117

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.

Armstead in 1923

boys
#2,123
15 births · 1 in 73,073 boys

Top boys' names in 1923

  1. #1John57,467
  2. #2Robert56,111
  3. #3William52,136
  4. #4James50,462
  5. #5Charles28,966
  6. #6George27,025
  7. #7Joseph25,561
  8. #8Edward20,597
  9. #9Richard18,887
  10. #10Donald16,433
  11. #2,123Armstead15
More about 1923

boys

1,096,102 boys got a published name in 1923; 1 in 73,073 of them was named Armstead, which outranked 56.7% of the 4,904 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Armstead
  1. #2,020Xavier16
  2. #2,020Yates16
  3. #2,020Zenon16
  4. #2,123Armstead15
  5. #2,123Aime15
  6. #2,123Alto15
  7. #2,123Arnett15
  8. #2,224Albertus14
  9. #2,224Alston14
  10. #2,224Alwin14

Tied with 100 names at #2,123; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1922
Risers
  1. ↑ 403Marcos#1,333 → #930
  2. ↑ 341Armin#1,333 → #992
  3. ↑ 309Betty#1,222 → #913
  4. ↑ 309Godfrey#1,222 → #913
  5. ↑ 308Val#1,181 → #873
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,021Harden#999 → #2,020
  2. ↓ 472Buel#850 → #1,322
  3. ↓ 420Trinidad#485 → #905
  4. ↓ 304Gorden#722 → #1,026
  5. ↓ 288Joy#840 → #1,128

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

See the top 100 for 1923 →