Ama

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Ama is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 18 births. Its best rank was 846th, in 1885.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 180.00% of girls
Peak year: 201925 births
Best rank: #846in 1885
Since 1885: 1,035people given the name

Babies named Ama, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

1,035 girls have been named Ama in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 25 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 2010s alone account for 16%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Ama
1880s	7
1890s	27
1900s	23
1910s	86
1920s	103
1930s	54
1940s	15
1950s	5
1960s	6
1970s	96
1980s	88
1990s	128
2000s	145
2010s	164
2020s	88

In 2019, its biggest year

Ama was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2019 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2019.

Names that rose and fell with Ama

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.