Amen — #2137 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Amen

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,186 babies named Amen between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Amen currently holds the #2137 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 79 babies received it in a single year. Amen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 864 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 568 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Amen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 89 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Virginia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Amen in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amen 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 1,186 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.