Amal
#1,241 for girls in 2025, 181 births · #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
Given to girls 91.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 241 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,141since 1962
Amal over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,241 | 181 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | #1,223 | 192 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #1,195 | 201 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #1,206 | 200 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #1,045 | 241 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | #1,120 | 215 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #1,287 | 179 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #1,262 | 183 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #1,340 | 173 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #1,614 | 136 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #1,778 | 117 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #2,176 | 87 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #2,568 | 69 | #8,118 | 9 |
| 2012 | #2,286 | 82 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,763 | 63 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #3,123 | 53 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,779 | 64 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #2,630 | 70 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #2,293 | 84 | #6,622 | 12 |
| 2006 | #2,887 | 60 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #2,524 | 68 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #2,370 | 72 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #1,947 | 93 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #1,819 | 97 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #2,471 | 58 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #2,221 | 64 | #4,873 | 13 |
| 1997 | #2,450 | 53 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #2,207 | 61 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #2,309 | 57 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #2,239 | 59 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #2,843 | 41 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #2,571 | 46 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #2,478 | 46 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #2,803 | 37 | #6,426 | 6 |
| 1987 | #2,657 | 37 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,724 | 35 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #3,419 | 25 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #2,992 | 29 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #3,172 | 27 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #3,506 | 23 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,078 | 27 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,637 | 18 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,872 | 15 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
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| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 | — | |
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| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amal! It came in at #5,860, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1963–1964, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Amal
- 18 spots since 2024 (#1,223 → #1,241)
- 121 spots since 2020 (#1,120 → #1,241)
- 537 spots since 2015 (#1,778 → #1,241)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2021 at #1,045 (241 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,809 girls born in 2021 were named Amal (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,880 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.7% of all girls named Amal (1,230) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 36 | #4,982 (1967) | #5,472 |
| 1970s | 163 | #3,078 (1979) | #4,173 |
| 1980s | 306 | #2,478 (1989) | #3,107 |
| 1990s | 526 | #2,207 (1996) | #2,484 |
| 2000s | 738 | #1,819 (2001) | #2,407 |
| 2010s | 1,142 | #1,262 (2018) | #2,020 |
| 2020s | 1,230 | #1,045 (2021) | #1,172 |
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.
Amal in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 25,578 of them was named Amal, which outranked 87.5% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,190Suzette72
- #2,190Tahlia72
- #2,190Traci72
- #2,213Amal71
- #2,213Capri71
- #2,213Catarina71
- #2,213Codi71
- #2,236Abygail70
- #2,236Aleisha70
- #2,236Aleya70
Tied with 22 names at #2,213; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 245,500 of them was named Amal, which outranked 38.8% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,839Zevin9
- #6,839Ziyon9
- #6,839Zoran9
- #7,416Amal8
- #7,416Abdelaziz8
- #7,416Abdinasir8
- #7,416Abelino8
- #8,209Aaran7
- #8,209Aasin7
- #8,209Abdirizak7
Tied with 792 names at #7,416; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.