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
- Peak · girls
- 1974 · 28 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 379since 1962
Ame over time
Rank among girls' names. Ame has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | — | ||
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | — | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #10,605 | 6 |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | — | |
| 2016 | — | — | ||
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| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | — | |
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | — | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | — | |
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| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | — | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | — | |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 | — | |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | — | |
| 1989 | — | — | ||
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,167 | 18 | — | |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 | — | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,616 | 28 | — | |
| 1973 | #3,481 | 18 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,318 | 17 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 | — | |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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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.
Where Ame is popular in 1973
No state had 5 or more girls named Ame in 1973, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ame
- 1,880 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #13,208)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1974 at #2,616 (28 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 42.5% of all girls named Ame (161) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 55 | #3,318 (1969) | #5,520 |
| 1970s | 161 | #2,616 (1974) | #4,265 |
| 1980s | 84 | #4,167 (1982) | #7,358 |
| 1990s | 19 | #9,247 (1990) | #11,395 |
| 2000s | 28 | #12,056 (2001) | #15,507 |
| 2010s | 15 | #15,539 (2019) | #16,068 |
| 2020s | 17 | #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 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 81,012 of them was named Ame, which outranked 64.5% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,342Vena19
- #3,342Veronika19
- #3,342Virgie19
- #3,481Ame18
- #3,481Abena18
- #3,481Alona18
- #3,481Amada18
- #3,635Alicea17
- #3,635Alise17
- #3,635Alnisa17
Tied with 153 names at #3,481; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.