Ameenah
Ameenah was given to 13 girls in 2025, #7,914 among girls’ names; 996 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ameenah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ameenah?
#7,914 among girls’ names, 2025
Ameenah fell from #4,405 in 2015 to #7,914 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 8.1 per million.
43 babies in 2016, the peak
Ameenah peaked in 2016, when 43 girls were given it, #3,592 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,914 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,457 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,396 | 14.3 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,913 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,966 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,017 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 41 | #3,672 | 24.4 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,853 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,001 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,592 | 24.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,405 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,927 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,898 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,404 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 36 | #4,075 | 20.5 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,111 | 15.2 |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,808 | 16.3 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,760 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,114 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,271 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,837 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,982 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,906 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,709 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,752 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,710 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,227 | 11.3 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,082 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,856 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,734 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,450 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 15 | #5,992 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,279 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,318 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,007 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,320 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,060 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,713 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,925 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,773 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,480 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,157 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,533 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,862 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,330 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,631 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,286 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,914 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,220 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,533 | 6.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ameenah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ameenah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ameenah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ameenah, and how old are they?
An estimated 981 Americans named Ameenah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 797 people named Ameenah (789 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 860 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,977 babies since 1880, Ameenah is the fourth most given (10.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 350 babies (3.7%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Ameenah
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 Ameenah and names like it
- Compare Ameenah and AminahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmeenah peaked in 2016.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ameenah since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Ameenah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ameenah alive today were born 2013-2025.
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