Almon

Where Almon comes from

Almon hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1790
    Almon Heath Read born
    American politician
  2. 1812
    Almon W. Babbitt born
    American politician
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1881
    Peak, #442
    15 babies named Almon — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #837.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Almon Heath Read · American politician, 1790–1844
  • Almon W. Babbitt · American politician, 1812–1856
  • Almon Harris Thompson · American geologist, 1839–1906

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.