Ameenah

Peak · girls
1978 · 23 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
996
since 1975

Ameenah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ameenah has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank197019801990200020102020peak #3,283, 1978girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#7,88513
2024#5,44323
2023#5,39023
2022#4,90727
2021#5,95520
2020#5,00325
2019#3,66541
2018#3,85338
2017#3,99637
2016#3,58843
2015#4,40332
2014#3,92538
2013#4,88728
2012#5,39825
2011#4,07236
2010#5,10827
2009#4,80530
2008#5,75024
2007#6,09322
2006#8,23714
2005#6,82017
2004#5,96920
2003#6,88516
2002#6,69816
2001#7,72413
2000#5,70519
1999#5,21920
1998#6,07316
1997#6,84413
1996#6,72313
1995#5,43917
1994#5,98415
1993#6,26414
1992#6,31414
1991#7,98710
1990#7,30311
1989#8,0379
1988#7,6919
1987#5,92312
1986#7,7498
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1984#10,4225
1983#5,14813
1982#4,52716
1981#3,85920
1980#4,32717
1979#4,62615
1978#3,28323
1977#3,91118
1976#5,21511
1975#5,51610
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First appearance
1975

The first year at least five girls were named Ameenah! It came in at #5,516, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1984–1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Ameenah is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Ameenah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ameenah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 2,882 spots since 2020 (#5,003 → #7,885)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1975
  • Peaked 1978 at #3,283 (23 births)
  • Births halved by 1984, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 40,936
  • Highest: 1 in 40,936 girls born in 2019 were named Ameenah (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,283 in 1978, was only 1 in 66,603 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 34.6% of all girls named Ameenah (345) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s77#3,283 (1978)#4,510
1980s109#3,859 (1981)#6,409
1990s143#5,219 (1999)#6,415
2000s191#4,805 (2009)#6,469
2010s345#3,588 (2016)#4,290
2020s131#4,907 (2022)#5,764

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.

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