Amen
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births · #2,035 for boys in 2025, 73 births
Given to boys 58.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 78 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,259since 1975
Amen 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 | #3,903 | 37 | #2,035 | 73 |
| 2024 | #3,277 | 48 | #2,133 | 69 |
| 2023 | #2,975 | 56 | #1,986 | 77 |
| 2022 | #2,689 | 64 | #2,408 | 58 |
| 2021 | #2,674 | 64 | #1,943 | 77 |
| 2020 | #2,196 | 82 | #2,139 | 65 |
| 2019 | #2,400 | 74 | #1,886 | 79 |
| 2018 | #2,438 | 73 | #2,083 | 68 |
| 2017 | #2,964 | 55 | #1,897 | 76 |
| 2016 | #3,229 | 50 | #1,991 | 72 |
| 2015 | #3,177 | 52 | #1,870 | 78 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 | #2,661 | 45 |
| 2013 | #3,703 | 41 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 | #3,179 | 35 |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | #3,235 | 34 |
| 2010 | #6,382 | 20 | #3,239 | 34 |
| 2009 | #6,317 | 21 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #5,661 | 15 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #4,198 | 21 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #3,735 | 24 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | — | #6,839 | 9 | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #8,868 | 5 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
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| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
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| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
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| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amen! It came in at #4,797, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1976, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Amen is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Nevada#391 · 1 in 1,941
- Maryland#526 · 1 in 3,090
- Virginia#582 · 1 in 3,856
- Texas#1,533 · 1 in 18,808
- California#1,871 · 1 in 28,287
Best ever in a state: #173 in District of Columbia, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | #391 | 7 | 1 in 1,941 |
| Maryland | #526 | 9 | 1 in 3,090 |
| Virginia | #582 | 11 | 1 in 3,856 |
| Texas | #1,533 | 10 | 1 in 18,808 |
| California | #1,871 | 8 | 1 in 28,287 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Amen
- 98 spots since 2024 (#2,133 → #2,035)
- 104 spots since 2020 (#2,139 → #2,035)
- 165 spots since 2015 (#1,870 → #2,035)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2015 at #1,870 (78 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 22,215 boys born in 2023 were named Amen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 23,398 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,870 in 2015, was only 1 in 24,574 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 45.1% of all boys named Amen (568) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2022, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #4,797 (1975) | #5,231 |
| 1980s | 23 | #5,459 (1987) | #5,933 |
| 1990s | 74 | #5,288 (1997) | #6,485 |
| 2000s | 158 | #3,721 (2009) | #5,486 |
| 2010s | 568 | #1,870 (2015) | #2,460 |
| 2020s | 419 | #1,943 (2021) | #2,107 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amen in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 34,329 of them was named Amen, which outranked 83.4% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,129Symone53
- #3,129Tanisha53
- #3,129Violett53
- #3,177Amen52
- #3,177Ahna52
- #3,177Ailey52
- #3,177Alexxa52
- #3,211Ailee51
- #3,211Alaynna51
- #3,211Aline51
Tied with 33 names at #3,177; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 24,574 of them was named Amen, which outranked 86.7% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,853Orin79
- #1,853Raylon79
- #1,853Sire79
- #1,870Amen78
- #1,870Aahil78
- #1,870Anay78
- #1,870Arvin78
- #1,895Ayman77
- #1,895Caeden77
- #1,895Coltyn77
Tied with 24 names at #1,870; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.