Amish

Last seen for boys in 2016 at #10,744

Peak · boys
1981 · 17 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
294
since 1971

Amish over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Amish has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971peak #2,680, 1981boys
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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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2016#10,7446
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2014#7,56210
2013#8,1189
2012#12,2745
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2010#12,2315
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2007#10,9216
2006#7,9989
2005#8,2998
2004#8,1438
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2002#8,4567
2001#10,5565
2000#8,2097
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1997#9,2655
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1994#7,7706
1993#7,6386
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1991#7,2716
1990#6,4157
1989#7,9055
1988#4,7869
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1986#6,7215
1985#4,6988
1984#4,5528
1983#3,23013
1982#2,83116
1981#2,68017
1980#3,25613
1979#3,16813
1978#2,92914
1977#4,1648
1976#3,09512
1975#3,07812
1974#2,94612
1973#3,6948
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First appearance
1971

The first year at least five boys were named Amish! It came in at #4,375, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1972, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Amish is popular in 1971

No state had 5 or more boys named Amish in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Amish
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2016
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1971
  • Peaked 1981 at #2,680 (17 births)
  • Births halved by 1984, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 105,363
  • Highest: 1 in 105,363 boys born in 1981 were named Amish (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 316,290 boys born in 2016 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1980s
  • 32.0% of all boys named Amish (94) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s85#2,929 (1978)#3,431
1980s94#2,680 (1981)#4,518
1990s30#6,415 (1990)#7,672
2000s50#7,998 (2006)#8,940
2010s35#7,562 (2014)#10,186

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.

Amish in 1971

boys
#4,375
6 births · 1 in 294,741 boys

Top boys' names in 1971

  1. #1Michael77,577
  2. #2James54,597
  3. #3David53,113
  4. #4John51,512
  5. #5Robert50,634
  6. #6Christopher48,225
  7. #7William35,413
  8. #8Jason34,173
  9. #9Brian32,624
  10. #10Scott30,901
  11. #4,375Amish6
More about 1971

boys

1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 294,741 of them was named Amish, which outranked 22.6% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amish
  1. #3,963Zechariah7
  2. #3,963Zeferino7
  3. #3,963Zerrick7
  4. #4,375Amish6
  5. #4,375Abelino6
  6. #4,375Absalom6
  7. #4,375Acey6
  8. #4,907Abdel5
  9. #4,907Abiel5
  10. #4,907Achille5

Tied with 531 names at #4,375; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. ↑ 754Germaine#1,582 → #828
  2. ↑ 626Jeramie#1,546 → #920
  3. ↑ 512Jeremey#1,396 → #884
  4. ↑ 473Jarod#1,337 → #864
  5. ↑ 454Jamel#1,374 → #920
Fallers
  1. ↓ 328Adolph#926 → #1,254
  2. ↓ 272Dwane#1,000 → #1,272
  3. ↓ 266Bronson#861 → #1,127
  4. ↓ 244Mitch#921 → #1,165
  5. ↓ 242Enrico#839 → #1,081

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

See the top 100 for 1971 →