Balmore

#10,851 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Balmore has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #10,851 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Balmore, 2025

1 in 553,000

Balmore over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Balmore?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,851
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Balmore sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Balmore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Balmores were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Balmore was born before 2005 — so the typical Balmore is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
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Choose a decade

2000s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Balmore 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
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (6)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,851
2025

Spellings of Balmore

Balmore is not the most common spelling — Elmore is, with 83.7% against Balmore's 0.34%.

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.

Balmore by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,851
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,851
2025
Peak year
2025
6 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Balmore

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

Sibling names for Balmore

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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