girls:
232 births since 1895
#5484 (4th percentile)
overall:
232 births since 1895
#7507 (3rd percentile)
The name Almena is the #7,507 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 232 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 3.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,484 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 232 births since 1895.
Almena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (first recorded for girls in 1895). Birth data for Almena is available in 28 out of the 68 years between 1895 and 1962. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Almena reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #596) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 36 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Almena".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Almena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.7% confident that Almena is pronounced as al-MEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahl-MEE-nuh, at 22.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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