Amen
Amen is given to both girls and boys: 37 girls and 73 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,908 among girls’ names and #2,036 among boys’, #3,315 among all names counting both); 2,161 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Amen every year since 2023.
An estimated 2,140 Americans named Amen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Amen?
#2,036 among boys’ names, 2025
Amen fell from #1,871 in 2015 to #2,036 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 40.7 to 42.7 per million.
153 babies in 2019, the peak
Amen peaked in 2019, when 153 babies were given it (79 boys, #1,888 among boys’ names). The 110 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 72% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,908 | 73 | #2,036 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,282 | 69 | #2,135 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,979 | 77 | #1,985 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,694 | 58 | #2,409 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,677 | 77 | #1,942 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,197 | 65 | #2,140 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,402 | 79 | #1,888 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,438 | 68 | #2,083 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,967 | 76 | #1,897 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,233 | 72 | #1,994 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,180 | 78 | #1,871 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,008 | 45 | #2,663 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,705 | 47 | #2,563 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,127 | 35 | #3,178 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,136 | 34 | #3,236 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,396 | 34 | #3,242 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,328 | 28 | #3,724 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,095 | 15 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,863 | 15 | #5,665 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,264 | 15 | #5,531 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,647 | 21 | #4,195 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,284 | 24 | #3,736 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,077 | 9 | #7,259 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,713 | 12 | #5,739 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 10 | #6,463 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 9 | #6,858 | |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,448 | 8 | #7,168 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,529 | 9 | #6,338 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 11 | #5,294 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #5,992 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #8,925 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 10 | #5,463 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,243 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 6 | #7,301 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 8 | #5,842 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 7 | #5,469 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 6 | #5,807 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #6,274 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,288 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #5,812 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,145 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #4,817 |
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 Amen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,161 Americans recorded as Amen, 42% are girls and 58% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amen, and how old are they?
2,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,161 Americans ever recorded as Amen. The median Amen alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,621 people named Amen (680 women and girls, 941 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,415 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 61 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 452 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,610 |
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 Amen born?
The states with the most babies named Amen are Texas, Washington and California, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,352 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 12 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| California | 6 | #2,220 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,222 | 1.4× |
Where Amen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amen is most over-represented in Maryland: since 1975 it was given 2.9 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 boys’ 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 Amen 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 21,162 babies since 1880, Amen is the sixth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 110 of their 642 babies (17%), the second 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 Amen
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 Amen and names like it
- Compare Amen and AmmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAmen peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amen since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Amen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.