Amish — boys' name

What the Data Says About Amish

The Social Security Administration has registered 294 babies named Amish between 1971 and 2016, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Amish currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 17 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amish performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 94 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Amish shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Amish in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amish 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 294 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.