Amani
#678 for girls in 2025, 419 births · #1,585 for boys in 2025, 107 births
Given to girls 82.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2010 · 528 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,440since 1969
Amani over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #678 | 419 | #1,585 | 107 |
| 2024 | #636 | 464 | #1,275 | 154 |
| 2023 | #621 | 481 | #1,489 | 120 |
| 2022 | #584 | 513 | #1,771 | 93 |
| 2021 | #685 | 424 | #2,040 | 72 |
| 2020 | #659 | 437 | #1,849 | 80 |
| 2019 | #708 | 403 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #741 | 374 | #2,101 | 67 |
| 2017 | #763 | 363 | #1,918 | 75 |
| 2016 | #708 | 402 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #728 | 389 | #1,846 | 80 |
| 2014 | #646 | 441 | #1,920 | 75 |
| 2013 | #589 | 482 | #1,827 | 78 |
| 2012 | #574 | 512 | #1,428 | 116 |
| 2011 | #562 | 520 | #1,476 | 110 |
| 2010 | #553 | 528 | #1,447 | 114 |
| 2009 | #580 | 524 | #1,443 | 116 |
| 2008 | #585 | 529 | #1,263 | 138 |
| 2007 | #650 | 456 | #1,527 | 103 |
| 2006 | #686 | 411 | #1,306 | 126 |
| 2005 | #644 | 431 | #1,584 | 87 |
| 2004 | #597 | 468 | #1,309 | 113 |
| 2003 | #709 | 368 | #1,656 | 75 |
| 2002 | #675 | 372 | #1,660 | 71 |
| 2001 | #719 | 339 | #1,400 | 89 |
| 2000 | #747 | 308 | #1,641 | 71 |
| 1999 | #791 | 277 | #1,720 | 60 |
| 1998 | #733 | 298 | #1,680 | 61 |
| 1997 | #820 | 252 | #1,836 | 51 |
| 1996 | #827 | 242 | #1,705 | 55 |
| 1995 | #1,002 | 187 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #1,129 | 159 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1993 | #1,358 | 121 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #1,713 | 87 | #3,459 | 18 |
| 1991 | #2,014 | 68 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #2,345 | 53 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #2,338 | 50 | #5,615 | 8 |
| 1988 | #2,539 | 42 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,624 | 24 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | — | |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,242 | 25 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,931 | 13 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | #3,658 | 8 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | #3,836 | 7 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amani! It came in at #6,617, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1977, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Amani is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New Jersey#699 · 1 in 6,470
- New York#1,332 · 1 in 14,256
- California#2,849 · 1 in 45,688
Best ever in a state: #91 in District of Columbia, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #699 | 7 | 1 in 6,470 |
| New York | #1,332 | 8 | 1 in 14,256 |
| California | #2,849 | 5 | 1 in 45,688 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amani
- 42 spots since 2024 (#636 → #678)
- 19 spots since 2020 (#659 → #678)
- 50 spots since 2015 (#728 → #678)
- Biggest jump: 175 spots in 1996 (#1,002 → #827)
- Biggest drop: 82 spots in 2015 (#646 → #728)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2010 at #553 (528 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1996–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,197 girls born in 2022 were named Amani (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,836 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #553 in 2010, was only 1 in 3,367 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.8% of all girls named Amani (4,414) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 6 | #6,617 (1969) | #6,617 |
| 1970s | 106 | #4,227 (1974) | #5,689 |
| 1980s | 226 | #2,338 (1989) | #4,295 |
| 1990s | 1,744 | #733 (1998) | #1,273 |
| 2000s | 4,206 | #580 (2009) | #659 |
| 2010s | 4,414 | #553 (2010) | #657 |
| 2020s | 2,738 | #584 (2022) | #644 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amani in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 42,401 of them was named Amani, which outranked 81.7% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,489Teena43
- #2,489Tiffanee43
- #2,489Zenia43
- #2,539Amani42
- #2,539Abbi42
- #2,539Abigale42
- #2,539Ashtin42
- #2,597Angelika41
- #2,597Annah41
- #2,597Azucena41
Tied with 57 names at #2,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.