Amal
Amal was given to 181 girls in 2025, #1,241 among girls’ names; 4,513 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,450 Americans named Amal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amal mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amal is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “hope” (أَمَل).
Borrowed from Arabic أَمَل (ʔamal, “hope”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amal?
#1,241 among girls’ names, 2025
Amal rose from #1,779 in 2015 to #1,241 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.11 per 1,000.
247 babies in 2021, the peak
Amal peaked in 2021, when 247 babies were given it (241 girls, #1,045 among girls’ names). The 197 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 80% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 181 | #1,241 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,223 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 201 | #1,196 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,208 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 241 | #1,045 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 215 | #1,120 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 179 | #1,287 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,262 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,340 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 136 | #1,615 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,779 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,178 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,570 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,290 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,766 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,126 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,780 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,631 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,294 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,888 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,524 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,368 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,946 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,603 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,816 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,209 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,469 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,219 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,448 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,206 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,306 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,699 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,822 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,236 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,839 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,567 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,474 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,799 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,658 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,729 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,419 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 29 | #2,991 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,481 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,174 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,511 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,080 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,252 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,178 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,967 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,638 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,867 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,200 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,094 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,632 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,875 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,058 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,652 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #4,994 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,826 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,870 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,513 Americans recorded as Amal, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 181 girls and 16 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amal, and how old are they?
4,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,513 Americans ever recorded as Amal. The median Amal alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 9,015 people named Amal (8,330 women and girls, 685 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,227 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 215 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 701 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,290 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Amal born?
The states with the most babies named Amal are New York, Texas and California, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 33 | #588 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 24 | #1,122 | 0.7× |
| California | 14 | #1,581 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 12 | #638 | 1.8× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #622 | 1.0× |
| Minnesota | 11 | #461 | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 9 | #932 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 9 | #762 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,020 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,703 | 0.4× |
Where Amal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amal is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1962 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,723 babies since 1880, Amal is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 197 of their 210 babies (94%), again the 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 Amal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Amal and names like it
- Compare Amal and AmaalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmal peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amal since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Amal.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amal alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.