America

Girls’ name Recorded 1880-2025

America was given to 117 girls in 2025, #1,734 among girls’ names; 13,538 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 12,100 Americans named America and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 16 and 26.

Babies named America each year, first recorded in 1880

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

America or Amerika Names of the 2000s Names in California

Births of America by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does America mean?

Wiktionary, English section

America is “a female given name.”

Learned borrowing from New Latin America, feminine Latinized form of the Italian first name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). Amerigo is an Italian name derived from a Germanic language and is etymologically related to Henry and Emmerich. The earliest known use of America for the (South) American continent is on a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller; see Naming of the Americas for more. Although this is the most widely accepted derivation, it has also been suggested that it could originate from the name of the Amerrisque mountains in Nicaragua (from Mayan), and another disputed theory is that it derives from the surname of Richard Amerike (1440–1503), whose surname is an anglicised form of Welsh ap Meurig (“son of Meurig”), from Old Welsh Mouric, which could be a rendition of Latin Mauritius (compare Maurice).

/əˈmɛɹɪkə/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry America (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is America?

#1,734 among girls’ names, 2025

America fell from #962 in 2015 to #1,734 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.07 per 1,000.

719 babies in 2005, the peak

America peaked in 2005, when 719 girls were given it, #427 among girls’ names. The 117 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.

America by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2025	117	#1,734	0.07
2024	110	#1,823	0.07
2023	97	#2,020	0.06
2022	89	#2,143	0.05
2021	112	#1,803	0.07
2020	127	#1,632	0.08
2019	158	#1,415	0.09
2018	151	#1,452	0.09
2017	193	#1,236	0.11
2016	261	#1,015	0.15

Every recorded year (146)

Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2015	282	#962	0.16
2014	325	#849	0.18
2013	347	#784	0.20
2012	288	#907	0.16
2011	329	#814	0.19
2010	443	#661	0.25
2009	544	#560	0.30
2008	615	#506	0.33
2007	700	#460	0.36
2006	687	#461	0.36
2005	719	#427	0.39
2004	612	#481	0.33
2003	563	#510	0.31
2002	705	#411	0.39
2001	513	#521	0.28
2000	324	#714	0.18
1999	247	#870	0.14
1998	230	#913	0.13
1997	134	#1,296	0.08
1996	133	#1,295	0.08
1995	115	#1,417	0.07
1994	119	#1,377	0.07
1993	116	#1,395	0.06
1992	98	#1,572	0.05
1991	88	#1,672	0.05
1990	73	#1,901	0.04
1989	88	#1,583	0.05
1988	75	#1,702	0.04
1987	50	#2,154	0.03
1986	55	#1,979	0.03
1985	48	#2,173	0.03
1984	44	#2,228	0.03
1983	56	#1,857	0.03
1982	38	#2,494	0.02
1981	56	#1,913	0.03
1980	58	#1,863	0.03
1979	64	#1,714	0.04
1978	39	#2,307	0.03
1977	58	#1,761	0.04
1976	79	#1,355	0.05
1975	52	#1,781	0.04
1974	50	#1,774	0.03
1973	34	#2,267	0.02
1972	42	#1,946	0.03
1971	36	#2,214	0.02
1970	37	#2,161	0.02
1969	24	#2,707	0.01
1968	25	#2,485	0.02
1967	25	#2,433	0.02
1966	24	#2,455	0.01
1965	19	#2,838	0.01
1964	21	#2,751	0.01
1963	16	#3,176	0.01
1962	18	#2,924	0.01
1961	13	#3,610	0.01
1960	23	#2,513	0.01
1959	20	#2,597	0.01
1958	6	#5,423	under 0.01
1957	22	#2,418	0.01
1956	11	#3,699	0.01
1955	15	#2,974	0.01
1954	8	#4,284	under 0.01
1953	19	#2,430	0.01
1952	17	#2,581	0.01
1951	17	#2,476	0.01
1950	13	#2,913	0.01
1949	11	#3,181	0.01
1948	13	#2,832	0.01
1947	16	#2,534	0.01
1946	14	#2,603	0.01
1945	9	#3,140	0.01
1944	13	#2,512	0.01
1943	16	#2,253	0.01
1942	13	#2,542	0.01
1941	19	#1,883	0.02
1940	19	#1,845	0.02
1939	27	#1,425	0.02
1938	14	#2,228	0.01
1937	12	#2,453	0.01
1936	15	#2,034	0.01
1935	9	#2,931	0.01
1934	9	#2,929	0.01
1933	18	#1,838	0.02
1932	16	#2,039	0.01
1931	22	#1,635	0.02
1930	24	#1,612	0.02
1929	32	#1,339	0.03
1928	25	#1,639	0.02
1927	16	#2,257	0.01
1926	26	#1,623	0.02
1925	24	#1,748	0.02
1924	36	#1,355	0.03
1923	37	#1,284	0.03
1922	46	#1,126	0.04
1921	36	#1,300	0.03
1920	34	#1,352	0.03
1919	39	#1,194	0.03
1918	50	#1,018	0.04
1917	22	#1,655	0.02
1916	18	#1,868	0.02
1915	30	#1,286	0.03
1914	29	#1,119	0.04
1913	26	#1,068	0.04
1912	23	#1,081	0.04
1911	19	#1,008	0.05
1910	12	#1,337	0.03
1909	19	#937	0.05
1908	15	#1,046	0.04
1907	16	#948	0.05
1906	13	#1,048	0.04
1905	18	#873	0.06
1904	10	#1,170	0.04
1903	17	#837	0.06
1902	16	#872	0.06
1901	11	#1,010	0.05
1900	15	#972	0.05
1899	24	#629	0.10
1898	20	#751	0.08
1897	8	#1,169	0.03
1896	16	#814	0.07
1895	12	#934	0.05
1894	10	#1,000	0.04
1893	12	#867	0.06
1892	16	#727	0.08
1891	21	#572	0.11
1890	15	#693	0.08
1889	20	#569	0.11
1888	17	#612	0.10
1887	15	#588	0.10
1886	14	#606	0.10
1885	18	#500	0.14
1884	12	#614	0.09
1883	14	#519	0.12
1882	13	#509	0.12
1881	11	#508	0.12
1880	16	#422	0.18

Download America’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is America a boy’s or a girl’s name?

America has been given almost only to girls: 16 boys in 146 years of records.

Girls and boys named America: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named America, and how old are they?

12,100 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 89% of the 13,538 Americans ever recorded as America. The median America alive today is 21 years old; half are between 16 and 26.

The 2020 Census counted 14,054 people named America (13,948 women and girls, 106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,598 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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

100-1092

90-9921

80-8971

70-79102

60-69156

50-59376

40-49495

30-39934

20-29 (median)4,680

10-194,100

0-91,150

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	83
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	229
Generation X	1965-1980	623
Millennials	1981-1996	1,220
Generation Z	1997-2012	7,570
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	2,350

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 America born?

The states with the most babies named America are Texas, California and Nevada, with 78% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Nevada is not among the ten states with the most births.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among girls’ names in the state in 2025
State	Births 2025	Rank, girls	vs. national
Texas	30	#950	2.5×
California	24	#1,089	2.3×
Nevada	8	#331	1.8×
Illinois	7	#1,124	0.9×
Arizona	6	#917	1.9×
Florida	5	#2,176	0.4×

Where America is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, America is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Texas2.49×

California2.31×

Arizona1.92×

Nevada1.76×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 America 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 13,868 babies since 1880, America is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 117 of their 124 babies (94%), again the most given.

America and the names spelled alike
Name	Since 1880	Births 2025	Peak year
America	13,538	117	2005
Amerika	330	7	2009

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 America

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1880-2025
Lanie	5,637
Cloe	3,927

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 America and names like it

Compare America and AmerikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 2000sAmerica peaked in 2005.
California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named America since 1910.
The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named America.
The names of Generation ZMost people named America alive today were born 1997-2012.
Names starting with AMost given first.

Compare America with another name