America
America is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 110 births. Its best rank was 411th, in 2002.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1100.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2005719 births
- Best rank
- #411in 2002
- Since 1880
- 13,404people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,404 girls have been named America in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 719 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 45%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named America | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 150 | |
| 1890s | 154 | |
| 1900s | 150 | |
| 1910s | 268 | |
| 1920s | 312 | |
| 1930s | 166 | |
| 1940s | 143 | |
| 1950s | 148 | |
| 1960s | 208 | |
| 1970s | 491 | |
| 1980s | 568 | |
| 1990s | 1,353 | |
| 2000s | 5,981 | |
| 2010s | 2,777 | |
| 2020s | 535 |
In 2005, its biggest year
America was the 427th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2005 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Abigail and Olivia. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with America
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Laniepeak 2006
- Cloepeak 2008
- Patiencepeak 2006
- Kalissapeak 2007
- Jalynnpeak 2007
- Tamiyapeak 2006
- Makayapeak 2007
- Angelinapeak 2005
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.