Given name & surname
Almanzo
“one who is highly esteemed; precious”
Almanzo is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “one who is highly esteemed; precious.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “one who is highly esteemed; precious.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Almanzo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 28 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1980
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 1980.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Almanzo’s family of names
Almanzo has a related form in Alma. Almanzo has a related form in Allmanzo. Almanzo has a related form in Allmenzo.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Almanzo
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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