Ami
#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 94.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 334 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,678since 1947
Ami 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 | #4,742 | 21 |
| 2022 | #2,894 | 58 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #2,784 | 61 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #2,888 | 59 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #2,654 | 67 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #2,726 | 65 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #2,779 | 64 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #2,647 | 69 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #2,438 | 76 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #2,088 | 89 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,711 | 60 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,465 | 66 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,026 | 73 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,915 | 75 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,730 | 84 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,511 | 103 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,815 | 80 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,774 | 82 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,395 | 115 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,479 | 105 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,383 | 109 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,157 | 132 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #950 | 170 | — | |
| 1986 | #886 | 186 | — | |
| 1985 | #893 | 179 | — | |
| 1984 | #909 | 164 | — | |
| 1983 | #890 | 170 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #853 | 182 | — | |
| 1981 | #768 | 212 | — | |
| 1980 | #700 | 243 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #621 | 283 | — | |
| 1978 | #630 | 265 | — | |
| 1977 | #618 | 271 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #529 | 331 | — | |
| 1975 | #525 | 334 | — | |
| 1974 | #549 | 306 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #543 | 307 | — | |
| 1972 | #658 | 230 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #692 | 220 | — | |
| 1970 | #697 | 225 | — | |
| 1969 | #774 | 173 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,074 | 97 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,071 | 94 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,463 | 57 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,337 | 67 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,708 | 46 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,922 | 37 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,414 | 25 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,036 | 33 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,061 | 31 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,376 | 23 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,823 | 17 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ami! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Ami
- 1,731 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #4,661)
- 1,380 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #4,661)
- 894 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #4,661)
- Biggest jump: 300 spots in 1969 (#1,074 → #774)
- Biggest drop: 207 spots in 1988 (#950 → #1,157)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1975 at #525 (334 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1969–1987
- Highest: 1 in 4,365 girls born in 1975 were named Ami (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.1% of all girls named Ami (2,772) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,295 (1947) | #5,295 |
| 1950s | 120 | #2,376 (1958) | #3,740 |
| 1960s | 660 | #774 (1969) | #1,586 |
| 1970s | 2,772 | #525 (1975) | #606 |
| 1980s | 1,747 | #700 (1980) | #939 |
| 1990s | 852 | #1,395 (1991) | #1,795 |
| 2000s | 691 | #2,088 (2005) | #2,495 |
| 2010s | 506 | #2,654 (2012) | #3,266 |
| 2020s | 325 | #2,415 (2023) | #3,161 |
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.
Ami in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 13,491 of them was named Ami, which outranked 91.7% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,147Natashia133
- #1,147Shira133
- #1,147Violet133
- #1,157Ami132
- #1,157Alyssia132
- #1,157Cherelle132
- #1,157Cherise132
- #1,164Aaron131
- #1,164Aubree131
- #1,164Bree131
Tied with 6 names at #1,157; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 382,857 of them was named Ami, which outranked 14.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,225 names at #7,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.