Boys' name · since 1976
Amol
Amol has 237 recorded births since 1976 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1982 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #11,967 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 237
- born since 1976
- 1980s
- peak decade
Amol sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 237 recorded since 1976.
Amol has 237 recorded births among boys since 1976, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys 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 1976 to 2017.
- #11,967 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 237 born since 1976
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Amol ranks #11,967 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 237 born since 1976, peaking in the 1980s.
- #11,967 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 237
- born since 1976
- 1980s
- peak decade
Amol's 237 recorded births place it above 73.63% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Amol's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Amol's full recorded timeline at 1994, 45% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 55% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1976, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1982 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Amol popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1976–2017
- Peak year (1982)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 42 years of records
Amol by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (86 births, 36% of the file).
1980s was Amol's strongest decade.
86 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 36% of all-time use.
Amol births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
37 births
- 1980s
1980s
86 births
- 1990s
1990s
44 births
- 2000s
2000s
49 births
- 2010s 21
2010s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 86 births (36% of all-time use).
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- Amol's decade-level peak was the 1980s (86 total births); usage has since declined to 21 in the 2010s -- 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 Amol: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1982)
Similar record span (~41 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, 1976–2017 (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 Amol 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.