Amani
Amani is given to both girls and boys: 419 girls and 107 boys were given it in 2025 (#678 among girls’ names and #1,585 among boys’, #1,134 among all names counting both); 16,330 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,200 Americans named Amani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amani mean?
Wiktionary, Swahili section
Amani is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “peace” (amani).
From amani (“peace”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swahili section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amani?
#678 among girls’ names, 2025
Amani rose from #729 in 2015 to #678 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.22 to 0.26 per 1,000.
667 babies in 2008, the peak
Amani peaked in 2008, when 667 babies were given it (529 girls, #586 among girls’ names). The 526 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 419 | #678 | 107 | #1,585 |
| 2024 | 464 | #636 | 154 | #1,276 |
| 2023 | 481 | #621 | 120 | #1,489 |
| 2022 | 513 | #584 | 93 | #1,771 |
| 2021 | 424 | #685 | 72 | #2,040 |
| 2020 | 437 | #659 | 80 | #1,849 |
| 2019 | 403 | #708 | 73 | #2,001 |
| 2018 | 374 | #741 | 67 | #2,101 |
| 2017 | 363 | #763 | 75 | #1,920 |
| 2016 | 402 | #708 | 72 | #1,993 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 389 | #729 | 80 | #1,849 |
| 2014 | 441 | #646 | 75 | #1,919 |
| 2013 | 482 | #589 | 78 | #1,826 |
| 2012 | 512 | #574 | 116 | #1,429 |
| 2011 | 520 | #562 | 110 | #1,476 |
| 2010 | 528 | #553 | 114 | #1,448 |
| 2009 | 524 | #580 | 116 | #1,443 |
| 2008 | 529 | #586 | 138 | #1,264 |
| 2007 | 456 | #650 | 103 | #1,527 |
| 2006 | 411 | #686 | 126 | #1,306 |
| 2005 | 431 | #644 | 87 | #1,582 |
| 2004 | 468 | #597 | 113 | #1,307 |
| 2003 | 368 | #709 | 75 | #1,653 |
| 2002 | 372 | #675 | 71 | #1,657 |
| 2001 | 339 | #719 | 89 | #1,396 |
| 2000 | 308 | #747 | 71 | #1,638 |
| 1999 | 277 | #790 | 60 | #1,718 |
| 1998 | 298 | #733 | 61 | #1,677 |
| 1997 | 252 | #820 | 51 | #1,833 |
| 1996 | 242 | #827 | 55 | #1,703 |
| 1995 | 187 | #999 | 44 | #1,911 |
| 1994 | 159 | #1,126 | 31 | #2,440 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,357 | 15 | #4,017 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,709 | 18 | #3,456 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,008 | 12 | #4,483 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,341 | 8 | #5,840 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,334 | 8 | #5,636 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,536 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,626 | 5 | #6,986 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,192 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,130 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,420 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,245 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,721 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,535 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,250 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,630 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,941 | 6 | #5,086 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,693 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,315 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,192 | 7 | #4,329 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,230 | 10 | #3,327 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,879 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,531 | 9 | #3,350 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,536 | 8 | #3,669 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,070 | 7 | #3,857 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,639 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Amani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 16,330 Americans recorded as Amani, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amani, and how old are they?
16,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 16,330 Americans ever recorded as Amani. The median Amani alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 12,337 people named Amani (10,163 women and girls, 2,174 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,972 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 159 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,290 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,700 |
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 Amani born?
The states with the most babies named Amani are Texas, California and Illinois, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 57 | #675 | 0.7× |
| California | 36 | #939 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 34 | #420 | 1.0× |
| New York | 29 | #833 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #559 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 24 | #693 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 24 | #622 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 20 | #546 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 18 | #594 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #603 | 1.3× |
Where Amani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amani is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1969 it was given 1.9 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 Amani 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 41,572 babies since 1880, Amani is the second most given (39% of them). In 2025 it was given to 526 of their 1,694 babies (31%), again the second 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 Amani
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 Amani and names like it
- Compare Amani and AminaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmani peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amani since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Amani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.