Ah
Ah was last recorded in 1991, when 6 babies were given it; 95 Americans have been recorded with it between 1884 and 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,313, in 1922; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
15 babies in 1915, the peak
Ah peaked in 1915, when 15 babies were given it (10 boys, #2,459 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 6 | #11,518 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,978 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,313 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,108 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 9 | #2,880 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 8 | #3,098 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,549 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 6 | #3,518 | |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,281 | 10 | #2,459 |
| 1914 | under 5 | 8 | #2,457 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | under 5 | 5 | #2,828 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 6 | #2,272 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 6 | #820 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 5 | #974 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Ah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 95 Americans recorded as Ah, 22% are girls and 78% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ah, and how old are they?
An estimated 11 Americans named Ah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,344 people named Ah (633 women and girls, 711 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11 born in the U.S. The Census count is 122.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 329 babies since 1880, Ah is the second most given (29% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Ah and names like it
- Compare Ah and AyoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAh peaked in 1915.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ah since 1910.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Ah.
- Names starting with AMost given first.