Girls' name · since 1974
Amica
Amica has 99 recorded births since 1974 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1998 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #27,185 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 99
- born since 1974
- 1980s
- peak decade
Amica is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 99 have been recorded since 1974.
Amica has 99 recorded births among girls since 1974, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1974 to 2020.
- #27,185 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 99 born since 1974
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Amica ranks #27,185 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 99 born since 1974, peaking in the 1980s.
- #27,185 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 99
- born since 1974
- 1980s
- peak decade
Amica's 99 recorded births place it above 62.28% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Amica's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Amica splits its recorded history at 1986: 47% of all births land in the more recent half, 53% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1978 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1998 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Amica popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1974–2020
- Peak year (1998)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 47 years of records
Amica by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (37 births, 37% of the file).
1980s was Amica's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Amica births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
30 births
- 1980s
1980s
37 births
- 1990s
1990s
17 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 37 births (37% of all-time use).
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- Amica's decade-level peak was the 1980s (37 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Amica: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1998)
Similar record span (~46 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1974–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Amica draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.