Ama
Ama was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,504 among girls’ names; 1,050 Americans have been recorded with it since 1885 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ama by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ama mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ama is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ama?
#7,504 among girls’ names, 2025
Ama rose from #8,480 in 2015 to #7,504 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 8.7 per million.
25 babies in 2019, the peak
Ama peaked in 2019, when 25 girls were given it, #5,169 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,504 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,407 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,762 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,242 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,425 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,437 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,169 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,260 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,303 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,254 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (97)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,480 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,325 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,736 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,887 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,425 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,828 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,407 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,761 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,546 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #7,892 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,602 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,289 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,902 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,868 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,747 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,822 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,199 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,121 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,636 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,407 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,570 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,688 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,510 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,486 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,304 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,470 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,902 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,709 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,371 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,766 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,344 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,917 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,155 | 7.8 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,156 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 19 | #3,998 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,763 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,970 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,219 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,313 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 9 | #5,993 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,730 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,878 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,303 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,407 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,018 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,267 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,977 | 2.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,263 | 2.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,579 | 3.8 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,375 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,264 | 4.6 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,463 | 6.3 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,270 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,230 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,241 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,910 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,756 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,692 | 9.8 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,589 | 10.7 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,174 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,289 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,882 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,949 | 9.0 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,813 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,991 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,485 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 11 | #2,952 | 8.9 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,595 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,645 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,379 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,701 | 10.2 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,253 | 13.4 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,697 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,891 | 9.2 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,158 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,485 | 12.0 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,420 | 12.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,080 | 15.7 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,943 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,663 | 21.8 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,343 | 29.2 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,609 | 21.5 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,603 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,241 | 31.4 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,448 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,344 | 27.0 |
| 1885 | 7 | #846 | 52.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ama a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ama has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 97 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ama: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ama, and how old are they?
An estimated 740 Americans named Ama and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 11 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,900 people named Ama (1,826 women and girls, 74 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 667 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Ama rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 802,893 babies since 1880, Ama is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 3,339 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ama
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Sabina | 8,082 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ama and names like it
- Compare Ama and AmyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAma peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ama since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Ama.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ama alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.