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Almira

#10,146 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Almira has been given to 1,821 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #10,146 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Almira, 2025

1 in 368,000

Almira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Almira: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

coinages

What Almira means

Almira has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Almira

A separate documented entry treats Almira as a variant of Elmira. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Almira as a feminine form of Al-Amir. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Coined name, possibly inspired by Elmira, of a queen of Castile in C. F. Handel's opera Almira (1705) to an Italian [Term?] libretto.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Almira (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Almira is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Almira is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,821 girls were recorded with the name Almira between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1917; its best national rank was #500 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,992 in 2020 to #10,146 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,642 in 2015 to #10,146 in 2025.

How common is Almira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,146
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Almira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Almira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Almiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Almira was born before 1925 — so the typical Almira is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
576
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (310).

Is Almira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,155
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,154
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,504
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
18.8%
Peak was 1917 (48)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#500
1883

Spellings of Almira

Almira is not the most common spelling — Alma is, with 26.5% against Almira's 0.29%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Almira is used

Across 1910–2025, Almira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,064,131 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in —
  4. 4Wisconsin1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Almira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Almira around the world

Where Almira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2025
    #1,854
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Almira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,146
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,154
Best rank ever
#500
1883
Peak year
1917
48 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,821
Count in 2025
9

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