Amer
Last seen for girls in 1987 at #8,778 · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to boys 99.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 46 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,438since 1927
Amer over time
Rank among boys' names. Amer has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | — | #4,396 | 23 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,890 | 20 | |
| 2023 | — | #4,002 | 27 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,184 | 25 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,494 | 22 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,426 | 22 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,716 | 29 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,476 | 22 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,193 | 36 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,681 | 29 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,919 | 40 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,014 | 25 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,122 | 35 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,533 | 21 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,364 | 32 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,239 | 34 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,744 | 28 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,250 | 34 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,744 | 42 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,241 | 31 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,217 | 30 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,180 | 50 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,372 | 43 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,217 | 46 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,425 | 39 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,063 | 46 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,987 | 48 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,964 | 46 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,299 | 35 | |
| 1995 | — | #2,178 | 37 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,444 | 31 | |
| 1993 | — | #2,050 | 39 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,174 | 35 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,344 | 30 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,308 | 30 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,784 | 22 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,367 | 25 | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #2,725 | 19 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #2,684 | 19 |
| 1985 | — | #3,070 | 15 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,824 | 16 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,272 | 22 | |
| 1982 | — | #4,234 | 9 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,536 | 19 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #3,614 | 10 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,012 | 8 | |
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| 1974 | — | #4,190 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amer! It came in at #4,210, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1927–1973, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Amer
- 494 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #4,396)
- 30 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #4,396)
- 1,477 spots since 2015 (#2,919 → #4,396)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 1997 at #1,964 (46 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 39,507 boys born in 2003 were named Amer (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,964 in 1997, was only 1 in 40,981 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.6% of all boys named Amer (383) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,210 (1927) | #4,210 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 50 | #3,386 (1977) | #4,030 |
| 1980s | 176 | #2,272 (1983) | #2,935 |
| 1990s | 377 | #1,964 (1997) | #2,181 |
| 2000s | 383 | #2,180 (2003) | #2,834 |
| 2010s | 303 | #2,919 (2015) | #3,626 |
| 2020s | 139 | #4,002 (2023) | #4,399 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amer in 1927
Top boys' names in 1927
More about 1927
boys
1,126,915 boys got a published name in 1927; 1 in 225,383 of them was named Amer, which outranked 12.3% of the 4,802 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 592 names at #4,210; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.