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Almudena

Girls' name

Our Lady of the Almudena

Almudena has been given to 26 babies in the U.S. since 2005. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2024, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Almudena, 2024

1 in 557,000

Almudena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Almudena: meaning, origin, and history

Our Lady of the Almudena

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Almudena means

Almudena means “Our Lady of the Almudena”, associated with Almudena.

Origin, language, and formation

Almudena is used in Spanish.

Almudena comes through Arabic اَلْمُدَيِّنَة.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nuestra Señora and مَدِينَة.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Almudena is pronounced /almuˈdena/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 26 girls were recorded with the name Almudena between 2005 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #13,574 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Almudena?

Almudena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Almudena 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Almudena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Almudenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Almudena was born before 2015 — so the typical Almudena is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
26
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 42.3% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Almudena 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2024 (6)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,574
2024

Almudena around the world

Where Almudena 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
    2025–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • France
    1968–1971
    #1,712
    in 1971

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Almudena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,574
2024
Peak year
2024
6 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Almudena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Almudena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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