Bama
Bama was last recorded in 1982, when 5 babies were given it; 498 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bama by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Bama?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,647, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1894, the peak
Bama peaked in 1894, when 14 girls were given it, #816 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 5 | #10,647 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,309 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,881 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,409 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,293 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,696 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,002 | 3.2 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,675 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,588 | 5.8 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,198 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 5 | #4,267 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,657 | 10.3 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,592 | 10.3 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,376 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,414 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,781 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,900 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,067 | 8.4 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,385 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,165 | 8.0 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,932 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,974 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,431 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,050 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,521 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,536 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,750 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,682 | 10.5 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,396 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,673 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,038 | 16.0 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,729 | 19.7 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,976 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,431 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,480 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,139 | 15.0 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,851 | 18.8 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,978 | 16.9 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,168 | 37.7 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,265 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,144 | 38.2 |
| 1902 | 14 | #942 | 53.0 |
| 1901 | 8 | #1,235 | 33.4 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,743 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,038 | 42.9 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,522 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,042 | 42.7 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,440 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 14 | #816 | 62.8 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,186 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,179 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,228 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,013 | 42.0 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,035 | 39.2 |
| 1888 | 9 | #903 | 50.4 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,163 | 34.3 |
| 1885 | 6 | #932 | 45.1 |
| 1884 | 9 | #739 | 69.8 |
| 1883 | 8 | #700 | 71.2 |
| 1882 | 6 | #820 | 55.6 |
| 1881 | 5 | #841 | 54.4 |
| 1880 | 6 | #751 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Bama a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bama has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bama: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bama, and how old are they?
An estimated 43 Americans named Bama and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 225 people named Bama (187 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 64 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Bama born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 105 | not ranked | 12.8× |
Where Bama is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Bama is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 12.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Bama with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 557 babies since 1880, Bama is the most given (89% of them).
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 Bama
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 Bama and names like it
- Compare Bama and BammaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1890sBama peaked in 1894.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bama since 1910.
- The top names of 1894The year the most babies were named Bama.
- Names starting with BMost given first.