Ah — boys' name

What the Data Says About Ah

The Social Security Administration has registered 74 babies named Ah between 1884 and 1922, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ah currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1922. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Ah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 21 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ah performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Ah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 53 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 74 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.