Girls' name · since 2021
Amla
26 babies named Amla in U.S. Social Security records since 2021, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #42,535 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,835 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 26
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Amla is the #11835 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 26 recorded since 2021.
Social Security Administration records show Amla recorded 26 times among girls since 2021, holding rank #11835 nationally today, ahead of 32% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2021 to 2025.
- #42,535 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #11,835 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 26 born since 2021
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Amla ranks #42,535 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,835 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 26 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.
- #42,535 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #11,835 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 26
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Amla's 26 recorded births place it above 40.56% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Amla compares
26 10th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Amla's all-time total is 93% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Amla | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 26 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Amla's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Amla's full recorded timeline at 2024, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2021, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2023 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Amla popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2025
- Peak year (2023)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Amla by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (26 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Amla's strongest decade.
26 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Amla births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
26 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 26 births (100% of all-time use).
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Related Names
Names with a similar popularity rank to Amla
Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Amla: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2023)
Similar record span (~4 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, 2021–2025 (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 Amla 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.