Amai — #7841 US unisex name
173 babies named Amai in U.S. Social Security records since 2005, with the highest year being 2019. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 56% of names given to girls today.
44% of everyone ever named Amai was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Amai in 2019 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Amai
The Social Security Administration has registered 173 babies named Amai between 2005 and 2024, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amai currently holds the #7841 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Amai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 48 additional births since 2020.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Amai performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Amai shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Amai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Amai 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 173 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.
Amai at a glance
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Current rank
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Amai popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2005
- Peak year (2019)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 20 years of records
Currently ranks #7841 among girls.
173 total births across 20 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2019 with 20 births in a single year.
Amai popularity over time — boys
48 total births recorded since 2020 (Amai as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Amai accounts for 22% of total recorded use across both genders.
Amai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 76 births that decade — 44% of Amai's all-time total
Amai decade highlights
- Peak decade 76 births
- Runner-up 75 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Amai's strongest decade
76 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
Amai by state
Where Amai concentrates geographically — total births since 2005
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 12 | 6.9% |
12 of 173 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 6.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 6.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 2005–2024 (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.