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

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201975peak #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.

Show data table
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rankbirths
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2016#10,7446
2015
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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1994#7,7706
1993#7,6386
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1991#7,2716
1990#6,4157
1989#7,9055
1988#4,7869
1987
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.

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 1975

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#3,078
12 births · 1 in 130,113 boys

Top boys' names in 1975

  1. #1Michael68,418
  2. #2Jason52,159
  3. #3Christopher46,575
  4. #4James39,569
  5. #5David39,156
  6. #6Robert35,306
  7. #7John35,079
  8. #8Brian30,578
  9. #9Matthew28,527
  10. #10William25,561
  11. #3,078Amish12
More about 1975

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1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 130,113 of them was named Amish, which outranked 51.4% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amish
  1. #2,902Yousef13
  2. #2,902Zac13
  3. #2,902Zaid13
  4. #3,078Amish12
  5. #3,078Aman12
  6. #3,078Antoino12
  7. #3,078Antoni12
  8. #3,246Adarryl11
  9. #3,246Adelbert11
  10. #3,246Adin11

Tied with 167 names at #3,078; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1974
Risers
  1. 722Benjiman#1,692#970
  2. 702Marques#1,520#818
  3. 645Glendon#1,409#764
  4. 502Benji#1,124#622
  5. 471Regan#1,409#938
Fallers
  1. 905Toma#882#1,787
  2. 830Vashon#923#1,753
  3. 352Bruno#993#1,345
  4. 327Hollis#953#1,280
  5. 303Domenico#977#1,280

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

See the top 100 for 1975