Ame

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · Last seen for boys in 2020 at #10,605
Given to girls 98.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1974 · 28 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
379
since 1962

Ame over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ame has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971peak #2,616, 1974girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086
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2021#13,4646
2020#15,0885#10,6056
2019#15,5395
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2017#15,9025
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2011#16,7645
2010
2009#15,2426
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2007#17,6365
2006#17,1685
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2002#15,4325
2001#12,0567
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1994#13,4305
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1991#11,5096
1990#9,2478
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1988#11,7985
1987#7,3539
1986#6,61210
1985#6,45710
1984#6,8109
1983#8,0477
1982#4,16718
1981#6,8049
1980#8,1787
1979#5,75111
1978#4,24216
1977#5,53211
1976#5,60110
1975#4,85412
1974#2,61628
1973#3,48118
1972#4,30013
1971#3,06222
1970#3,20820
1969#3,31817
1968#7,0165
1967#4,9828
1966#4,8668
1965#5,2897
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1963#6,5925
1962#6,5785
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First appearance
1962

The first year at least five girls were named Ame! It came in at #6,578, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1962–1964, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Ame
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,880 spots since 2020 (#15,088#13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1962
  • Peaked 1974 at #2,616 (28 births)
  • Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 52,412
  • Highest: 1 in 52,412 girls born in 1974 were named Ame (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 42.5% of all girls named Ame (161) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s55#3,318 (1969)#5,520
1970s161#2,616 (1974)#4,265
1980s84#4,167 (1982)#7,358
1990s19#9,247 (1990)#11,395
2000s28#12,056 (2001)#15,507
2010s15#15,539 (2019)#16,068
2020s17#13,208 (2025)#13,920

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.

Ame in 1971

girls
#3,062
22 births · 1 in 75,628 girls

Top girls' names in 1971

  1. #1Jennifer56,771
  2. #2Michelle33,160
  3. #3Lisa32,907
  4. #4Kimberly30,708
  5. #5Amy26,237
  6. #6Angela25,901
  7. #7Melissa23,875
  8. #8Tammy17,656
  9. #9Mary16,703
  10. #10Julie15,322
  11. #3,062Ame22
More about 1971

girls

1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 75,628 of them was named Ame, which outranked 68.3% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ame
  1. #2,955Vania23
  2. #2,955Veronique23
  3. #2,955Yvonna23
  4. #3,062Ame22
  5. #3,062Alda22
  6. #3,062Alfredia22
  7. #3,062Andree22
  8. #3,166Abbe21
  9. #3,166Amberly21
  10. #3,166Anjali21

Tied with 103 names at #3,062; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. 2,115Yesenia#2,522#407
  2. 1,431Shayla#2,267#836
  3. 853Ebony#1,681#828
  4. 749Consuela#1,706#957
  5. 510Candida#1,196#686
Fallers
  1. 572Sebrina#916#1,488
  2. 382Janene#684#1,066
  3. 375Treena#989#1,364
  4. 356Tisa#910#1,266
  5. 351Shaun#929#1,280

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1971