Amani
#678 for girls in 2025, 419 births · #1,585 for boys in 2025, 107 births
Given to girls 82.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 528 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,440since 1969
Amani 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #678 | 419 | #1,585 | 107 |
| 2024 | #636 | 464 | #1,275 | 154 |
| 2023 | #621 | 481 | #1,489 | 120 |
| 2022 | #584 | 513 | #1,771 | 93 |
| 2021 | #685 | 424 | #2,040 | 72 |
| 2020 | #659 | 437 | #1,849 | 80 |
| 2019 | #708 | 403 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #741 | 374 | #2,101 | 67 |
| 2017 | #763 | 363 | #1,918 | 75 |
| 2016 | #708 | 402 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #728 | 389 | #1,846 | 80 |
| 2014 | #646 | 441 | #1,920 | 75 |
| 2013 | #589 | 482 | #1,827 | 78 |
| 2012 | #574 | 512 | #1,428 | 116 |
| 2011 | #562 | 520 | #1,476 | 110 |
| 2010 | #553 | 528 | #1,447 | 114 |
| 2009 | #580 | 524 | #1,443 | 116 |
| 2008 | #585 | 529 | #1,263 | 138 |
| 2007 | #650 | 456 | #1,527 | 103 |
| 2006 | #686 | 411 | #1,306 | 126 |
| 2005 | #644 | 431 | #1,584 | 87 |
| 2004 | #597 | 468 | #1,309 | 113 |
| 2003 | #709 | 368 | #1,656 | 75 |
| 2002 | #675 | 372 | #1,660 | 71 |
| 2001 | #719 | 339 | #1,400 | 89 |
| 2000 | #747 | 308 | #1,641 | 71 |
| 1999 | #791 | 277 | #1,720 | 60 |
| 1998 | #733 | 298 | #1,680 | 61 |
| 1997 | #820 | 252 | #1,836 | 51 |
| 1996 | #827 | 242 | #1,705 | 55 |
| 1995 | #1,002 | 187 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #1,129 | 159 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1993 | #1,358 | 121 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #1,713 | 87 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #2,014 | 68 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #2,345 | 53 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #2,338 | 50 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amani! It came in at #6,617, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Amani is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#186 · 1 in 586
- New Jersey#251 · 1 in 1,338
- New York#322 · 1 in 1,831
- Maryland#395 · 1 in 2,176
- Connecticut#407 · 1 in 2,590
Best ever in a state: #91 in District of Columbia, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| District of Columbia | #186 | 6 | 1 in 586 |
| New Jersey | #251 | 31 | 1 in 1,338 |
| New York | #322 | 55 | 1 in 1,831 |
| Maryland | #395 | 11 | 1 in 2,176 |
| Connecticut | #407 | 6 | 1 in 2,590 |
| North Carolina | #434 | 16 | 1 in 2,631 |
| Virginia | #466 | 12 | 1 in 2,826 |
| Georgia | #491 | 14 | 1 in 3,181 |
| Pennsylvania | #524 | 16 | 1 in 3,644 |
| Louisiana | #555 | 7 | 1 in 3,121 |
| Massachusetts | #593 | 7 | 1 in 4,558 |
| Michigan | #614 | 12 | 1 in 4,293 |
| Florida | #620 | 18 | 1 in 4,127 |
| Illinois | #910 | 10 | 1 in 7,042 |
| Ohio | #937 | 7 | 1 in 8,803 |
| California | #1,039 | 25 | 1 in 8,841 |
| Texas | #1,521 | 10 | 1 in 14,344 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amani
- 42 spots since 2024 (#636 → #678)
- 19 spots since 2020 (#659 → #678)
- 50 spots since 2015 (#728 → #678)
- Biggest jump: 175 spots in 1996 (#1,002 → #827)
- Biggest drop: 82 spots in 2015 (#646 → #728)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2010 at #553 (528 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1996–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,197 girls born in 2022 were named Amani (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,836 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #553 in 2010, was only 1 in 3,367 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.8% of all girls named Amani (4,414) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #6,617 (1969) | #6,617 |
| 1970s | 106 | #4,227 (1974) | #5,689 |
| 1980s | 226 | #2,338 (1989) | #4,295 |
| 1990s | 1,744 | #733 (1998) | #1,273 |
| 2000s | 4,206 | #580 (2009) | #659 |
| 2010s | 4,414 | #553 (2010) | #657 |
| 2020s | 2,738 | #584 (2022) | #644 |
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.
Amani in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 5,929 of them was named Amani, which outranked 95.6% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 31,334 of them was named Amani, which outranked 85.1% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,666Raj62
- #1,666Rohit62
- #1,666Wolfgang62
- #1,680Amani61
- #1,680Brigham61
- #1,680Cy61
- #1,680Dayshawn61
- #1,700Baylee60
- #1,700Bayley60
- #1,700Benedict60
Tied with 19 names at #1,680; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.