Ama

Where Ama comes from

The dictionaries list Ama as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    Debut at its peak, #842
    #842 among girls with 7 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1960
    Ama Tutu Muna born
    Cameroonian politician
  4. 1980
    Ama K. Abebrese born
    Ghanaian Actress, television presenter, producer.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Ama K. Abebrese · Ghanaian Actress, television presenter, producer., born 1980
  • Ama Tutu Muna · Cameroonian politician, born 1960
  • Ama Pomaa Boateng · Ghanaian politician, born 1975
  • Ama Ampofo · Ghanaian actress, born 1991
  • Ama Nkrumah · Ghanaian female political activist during and after Ghana's independence struggle

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.