Ama
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births
- Peak · girls
- 1885 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,050since 1885
Ama over time
Rank among girls' names. Ama has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #5,163 | 25 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 |
| 2016 | #7,230 | 16 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 |
| 2008 | #7,742 | 16 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #4,204 | 5 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,901 | 6 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | #2,690 | 11 |
| 1929 | #2,587 | 12 |
| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
| 1925 | #2,939 | 11 |
| 1924 | #2,809 | 12 |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 |
| 1922 | #2,479 | 14 |
| 1921 | #2,941 | 11 |
| 1920 | #2,590 | 13 |
| 1919 | #2,640 | 12 |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 |
| 1916 | #2,246 | 14 |
| 1915 | #2,688 | 10 |
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 |
| 1913 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,144 | 8 |
| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 |
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
| 1906 | — | |
| 1905 | #1,931 | 5 |
| 1904 | #1,659 | 6 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | #1,339 | 7 |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | #1,596 | 5 |
| 1898 | — | |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | #1,592 | 5 |
| 1894 | #1,237 | 7 |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #1,332 | 5 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #842 | 7 |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Ama! It came in at #842, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1886–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ama is popular in 1929
No state had 5 or more girls named Ama in 1929, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ama
- 1,097 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #7,491)
- 915 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #7,491)
- 956 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #7,491)
- Debuted 1885
- Peaked 1885 at #842 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1885
- Highest: 1 in 19,008 girls born in 1885 were named Ama (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 15.7% of all girls named Ama (165) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | #842 (1885) | #842 |
| 1890s | 27 | #1,237 (1894) | #1,439 |
| 1900s | 23 | #1,339 (1901) | #1,748 |
| 1910s | 86 | #2,144 (1912) | #2,503 |
| 1920s | 103 | #2,479 (1922) | #3,163 |
| 1930s | 54 | #2,690 (1930) | #3,715 |
| 1940s | 15 | #4,349 (1940) | #4,716 |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,952 (1956) | #5,952 |
| 1960s | 6 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,246 |
| 1970s | 96 | #4,300 (1972) | #5,948 |
| 1980s | 88 | #3,992 (1980) | #7,566 |
| 1990s | 128 | #5,484 (1992) | #7,222 |
| 2000s | 145 | #5,600 (2005) | #7,863 |
| 2010s | 165 | #5,163 (2019) | #7,444 |
| 2020s | 102 | #5,752 (2023) | #6,781 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ama in 1929
Top girls' names in 1929
More about 1929
girls
1,116,561 girls got a published name in 1929; 1 in 93,047 of them was named Ama, which outranked 51.0% of the 5,277 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,437Violetta13
- #2,437Viona13
- #2,437Wilhemina13
- #2,587Ama12
- #2,587Alena12
- #2,587Almedia12
- #2,587Almetta12
- #2,737Abby11
- #2,737Adalene11
- #2,737Adriana11
Tied with 149 names at #2,587; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.