Amada — #3447 US girls' name
2,490 babies named Amada in U.S. Social Security records since 1890, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 80% of names given to girls today.
13% of everyone ever named Amada was born in this single decade.
50 babies were named Amada in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Amada
The Social Security Administration has registered 2,490 babies named Amada between 1890 and 2024, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amada currently holds the #3447 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 50 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Amada performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 314 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Amada shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 728 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Mexico. In total, SSA state-level files list Amada in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Amada 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 2,490 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.
Amada at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Amada popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1890
- Peak year (2019)
- 50
- Annual births at peak — across 135 years of records
Currently ranks #3447 among girls.
2,490 total births across 135 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 50 births in a single year.
Amada by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 314 births that decade — 13% of Amada's all-time total
Amada decade highlights
- Peak decade 314 births
- Runner-up 275 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Amada's strongest decade
314 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 13% of all-time use.
Amada by state
Where Amada concentrates geographically — total births since 1890
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 728 | 29.2% |
| #2 | California | | 416 | 16.7% |
| #3 | New Mexico | | 36 | 1.4% |
| #4 | Illinois | | 5 | 0.2% |
| #5 | New York | | 5 | 0.2% |
728 of 2,490 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 29.2% of nationwide
- California 16.7% of nationwide
- New Mexico 1.4% of nationwide
- Illinois 0.2% of nationwide
- New York 0.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 29.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1890–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.