Ami

#4,661 for girls in 2025, 29 births · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to girls 94.8% of the time

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Peak · girls
1975 · 334 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
7,678
since 1947

Ami over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201957peak #525, 1975peak #3,025, 2007girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,66129#6,44613
2024#2,93056#5,90415
2023#2,41574#4,74221
2022#2,89458#5,87415
2021#2,78461#9,7147
2020#3,28147#7,50210
2019#3,38846#4,95119
2018#3,67741#6,34513
2017#3,55243#6,68512
2016#3,70741#4,94319
2015#3,76740#7,49110
2014#2,88859#4,13824
2013#3,16651#5,65915
2012#2,65467#3,29733
2011#3,13253#4,65920
2010#2,72665#5,04718
2009#2,77964#6,43613
2008#2,41979#3,82327
2007#2,64769#3,02538
2006#2,43876#3,68627
2005#2,08889—
2004#2,71160—
2003#2,46566#10,8945
2002#2,46764#10,6675
2001#2,60058#9,2436
2000#2,33266—
1999#2,30764—
1998#2,02673—
1997#2,00271—
1996#1,91575—
1995#1,73084—
1994#1,511103—
1993#1,81580—
1992#1,77482—
1991#1,395115—
1990#1,479105—
1989#1,383109—
1988#1,157132#7,2705
1987#950170—
1986#886186—
1985#893179—
1984#909164—
1983#890170#5,4846
1982#853182—
1981#768212—
1980#700243#5,5256
1979#621283—
1978#630265—
1977#618271#3,8369
1976#529331—
1975#525334—
1974#549306#5,2275
1973#543307—
1972#658230#4,4416
1971#692220—
1970#697225—
1969#774173—
1968#1,07497—
1967#1,07194—
1966#1,46357—
1965#1,33767—
1964#1,70846—
1963#1,92237—
1962#2,41425—
1961#2,03633—
1960#2,06131—
1959#3,25414—
1958#2,37623—
1957#2,82317—
1956#2,92916—
1955#2,83916—
1954#4,2788—
1953#5,6735—
1952#4,4837—
1951#4,0118—
1950#4,7386—
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First appearance
1947

The first year at least five girls were named Ami! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1947–1949, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Ami is popular in 1957

No state had 5 or more girls named Ami in 1957, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ami
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,731 spots since 2024 (#2,930 → #4,661)
  • 1,380 spots since 2020 (#3,281 → #4,661)
  • 894 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #4,661)
  • Biggest jump: 300 spots in 1969 (#1,074 → #774)
  • Biggest drop: 207 spots in 1988 (#950 → #1,157)
Rise & fade · girls
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1947
  • Peaked 1975 at #525 (334 births)
  • Births halved by 1984, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 19 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1969–1987
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,365
  • Highest: 1 in 4,365 girls born in 1975 were named Ami (0.02%)
  • Latest: 1 in 55,423 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 36.1% of all girls named Ami (2,772) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s5#5,295 (1947)#5,295
1950s120#2,376 (1958)#3,740
1960s660#774 (1969)#1,586
1970s2,772#525 (1975)#606
1980s1,747#700 (1980)#939
1990s852#1,395 (1991)#1,795
2000s691#2,088 (2005)#2,495
2010s506#2,654 (2012)#3,266
2020s325#2,415 (2023)#3,161

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.

Ami in 1957

girls
#2,823
17 births · 1 in 120,285 girls

Top girls' names in 1957

  1. #1Mary61,102
  2. #2Susan45,954
  3. #3Linda44,517
  4. #4Debra42,728
  5. #5Karen40,591
  6. #6Deborah40,096
  7. #7Cynthia39,340
  8. #8Patricia39,283
  9. #9Barbara29,692
  10. #10Donna28,042
  11. #2,823Ami17
More about 1957

girls

2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 120,285 of them was named Ami, which outranked 59.8% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ami
  1. #2,727Venetta18
  2. #2,727Wynn18
  3. #2,727Zetta18
  4. #2,823Ami17
  5. #2,823Ardyce17
  6. #2,823Artis17
  7. #2,823Bernard17
  8. #2,926Alaine16
  9. #2,926Alycia16
  10. #2,926Arlena16

Tied with 102 names at #2,823; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1956
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,944Tammi#3,696 → #752
  2. ↑ 1,310Tamela#2,151 → #841
  3. ↑ 1,298Tammie#1,662 → #364
  4. ↑ 993Tia#1,968 → #975
  5. ↑ 676Tamera#1,287 → #611
Fallers
  1. ↓ 423Corliss#878 → #1,301
  2. ↓ 399Glynis#977 → #1,376
  3. ↓ 367Merrie#977 → #1,344
  4. ↓ 303Taryn#935 → #1,238
  5. ↓ 291Glendora#963 → #1,254

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1957 →