Amerika
Amerika was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,007 among girls’ names; 330 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amerika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amerika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amerika is “a female given name, variant of America.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amerika?
#12,007 among girls’ names, 2025
Amerika fell from #5,136 in 2015 to #12,007 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 4.4 per million.
27 babies in 2009, the peak
Amerika peaked in 2009, when 27 girls were given it, #5,234 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,007 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,460 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,933 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,847 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,265 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,930 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,136 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,734 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,608 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,745 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | #6,157 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,667 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,234 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,565 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,688 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,738 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,543 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,936 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,309 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,903 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,158 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,255 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,394 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,171 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,511 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,245 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,246 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,884 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amerika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Amerika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Amerika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amerika, and how old are they?
An estimated 327 Americans named Amerika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 304 people named Amerika (292 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 315 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 13,868 babies since 1880, Amerika is the second most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 124 babies (5.6%), 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 Amerika
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 Amerika and names like it
- Compare Amerika and AmericaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAmerika peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amerika since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Amerika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Amerika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.