Amma
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · girls
- 1887 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 579since 1886
Amma over time
Rank among girls' names. Amma has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #9,901 | 11 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 |
| 2002 | — | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 |
| 2000 | — | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,888 | 9 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | — | |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | — | |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | — | |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | — | |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | — | |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | — | |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | — | |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,503 | 7 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 |
| 1926 | #2,708 | 12 |
| 1925 | #3,116 | 10 |
| 1924 | #3,393 | 9 |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 |
| 1922 | #4,011 | 7 |
| 1921 | #3,400 | 9 |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,005 | 10 |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 |
| 1915 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,265 | 10 |
| 1913 | #2,827 | 6 |
| 1912 | #1,981 | 9 |
| 1911 | — | |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | #1,676 | 7 |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 |
| 1906 | #1,553 | 7 |
| 1905 | — | |
| 1904 | #1,877 | 5 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,793 | 5 |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | #1,561 | 7 |
| 1899 | #1,394 | 6 |
| 1898 | #1,502 | 6 |
| 1897 | #1,037 | 10 |
| 1896 | — | |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,485 | 5 |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | — | |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #937 | 7 |
| 1886 | #1,108 | 5 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Amma! It came in at #1,108, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1896, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amma is popular in 1926
No state had 5 or more girls named Amma in 1926, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Amma
- 5,836 spots since 2024 (#15,293 → #9,457)
- 5,631 spots since 2020 (#15,088 → #9,457)
- 2,378 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #9,457)
- Biggest jump: 171 spots in 1887 (#1,108 → #937)
- Debuted 1886
- Peaked 1887 at #937 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1888, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1887
- Highest: 1 in 20,854 girls born in 1887 were named Amma (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 13.6% of all girls named Amma (79) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | #937 (1887) | #1,108 |
| 1890s | 32 | #1,037 (1897) | #1,371 |
| 1900s | 37 | #1,553 (1906) | #1,714 |
| 1910s | 57 | #1,981 (1912) | #3,071 |
| 1920s | 79 | #2,708 (1926) | #3,496 |
| 1930s | 38 | #2,735 (1937) | #3,393 |
| 1940s | 14 | #3,503 (1940) | #3,652 |
| 1950s | 6 | #4,908 (1952) | #4,908 |
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 27 | #6,696 (1979) | #8,101 |
| 1980s | 52 | #5,254 (1981) | #7,962 |
| 1990s | 48 | #9,260 (1998) | #11,253 |
| 2000s | 52 | #9,048 (2003) | #13,259 |
| 2010s | 70 | #7,716 (2019) | #11,938 |
| 2020s | 45 | #9,457 (2025) | #12,118 |
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.
Amma in 1926
Top girls' names in 1926
More about 1926
girls
1,185,401 girls got a published name in 1926; 1 in 98,783 of them was named Amma, which outranked 51.8% of the 5,622 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,569Wyoma13
- #2,569Yukie13
- #2,569Zenia13
- #2,708Amma12
- #2,708Aleda12
- #2,708Aletta12
- #2,708Alyene12
- #2,872Adalene11
- #2,872Adelfa11
- #2,872Albertia11
Tied with 163 names at #2,708; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 1,047Janell#1,795 → #748
- ↑ 389Madalyn#1,225 → #836
- ↑ 382Evangelina#1,324 → #942
- ↑ 379Carla#1,252 → #873
- ↑ 351Vilma#1,020 → #669
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.