Amena

#4,546 for girls in 2025, 30 births

Peak · girls
2017 · 44 births
Debut · girls
9 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,081
since 1968

Amena over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Amena has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201968peak #3,479, 2017girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#4,54630
2024#4,66929
2023#4,65529
2022#3,82739
2021#3,49144
2020#4,88026
2019#5,79821
2018#3,91837
2017#3,47944
2016#3,52344
2015#3,65042
2014#3,77840
2013#7,37216
2012#6,34120
2011#4,80729
2010#6,38220
2009#5,22627
2008#7,07318
2007#6,81219
2006#7,86815
2005#5,80021
2004#5,06225
2003#4,66827
2002#5,89719
2001#7,31714
2000#4,29128
1999#6,48415
1998#6,71914
1997#4,81921
1996#6,39214
1995#5,22118
1994#7,60411
1993#4,99819
1992#9,4918
1991#5,94915
1990#6,46513
1989#5,54515
1988#7,6919
1987#7,3539
1986#4,96415
1985#5,34813
1984#7,3988
1983#6,7059
1982#7,4698
1981#3,85920
1980#5,54412
1979#6,6969
1978#7,6497
1977#5,53211
1976#6,0489
1975#5,16111
1974#4,45913
1973#5,19110
1972#5,9598
1971#8,3245
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First appearance
1968

The first year at least five girls were named Amena! It came in at #4,779, and was given to 9 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1969–1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Amena is popular in 1968

No state had 5 or more girls named Amena in 1968, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Amena
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 123 spots since 2024 (#4,669#4,546)
  • 334 spots since 2020 (#4,880#4,546)
  • 896 spots since 2015 (#3,650#4,546)
Rise & fade · girls
49 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1968
  • Peaked 2017 at #3,479 (44 births)
  • Births halved by 2019, 2 yrs 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 37,292
  • Highest: 1 in 37,292 girls born in 2021 were named Amena (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 53,576 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,479 in 2017, was only 1 in 39,238 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 29.0% of all girls named Amena (313) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s9#4,779 (1968)#4,779
1970s83#4,459 (1974)#6,113
1980s118#3,859 (1981)#6,188
1990s148#4,819 (1997)#6,414
2000s213#4,291 (2000)#6,001
2010s313#3,479 (2017)#4,905
2020s197#3,491 (2021)#4,345

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.

Amena in 1968

girls
#4,779
9 births · 1 in 182,265 girls

Top girls' names in 1968

  1. #1Lisa49,534
  2. #2Michelle33,223
  3. #3Kimberly31,906
  4. #4Jennifer26,853
  5. #5Melissa21,733
  6. #6Mary21,727
  7. #7Angela20,670
  8. #8Tammy20,058
  9. #9Karen19,560
  10. #10Susan19,503
  11. #4,779Amena9
More about 1968

girls

1,640,389 girls got a published name in 1968; 1 in 182,265 of them was named Amena, which outranked 41.7% of the 8,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amena
  1. #4,489Yona10
  2. #4,489Zenda10
  3. #4,489Zenia10
  4. #4,779Amena9
  5. #4,779Agustina9
  6. #4,779Aide9
  7. #4,779Allicia9
  8. #5,147Adra8
  9. #5,147Adrean8
  10. #5,147Adrienna8

Tied with 367 names at #4,779; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1967
Risers
  1. 3,132Coretta#3,656#524
  2. 1,257Tamika#1,980#723
  3. 1,150Tamiko#1,702#552
  4. 607Chantel#1,348#741
  5. 490Chantal#1,441#951
Fallers
  1. 602Wende#857#1,459
  2. 545Zina#959#1,504
  3. 341Evonne#970#1,311
  4. 294Portia#902#1,196
  5. 285Mariann#973#1,258

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

See the top 100 for 1968