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
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 334 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,678since 1947
Ami 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,661 | 29 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #2,930 | 56 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #2,415 | 74 | #4,742 | 21 |
| 2022 | #2,894 | 58 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #2,784 | 61 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #3,281 | 47 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #3,388 | 46 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 | #6,345 | 13 |
| 2017 | #3,552 | 43 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #3,707 | 41 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #2,888 | 59 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 | #5,659 | 15 |
| 2012 | #2,654 | 67 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #2,726 | 65 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #2,779 | 64 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #2,419 | 79 | #3,823 | 27 |
| 2007 | #2,647 | 69 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #2,438 | 76 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #2,088 | 89 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,711 | 60 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,465 | 66 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #2,467 | 64 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,026 | 73 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,915 | 75 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,730 | 84 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,511 | 103 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,815 | 80 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,774 | 82 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,395 | 115 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,479 | 105 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,383 | 109 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,157 | 132 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #950 | 170 | — | |
| 1986 | #886 | 186 | — | |
| 1985 | #893 | 179 | — | |
| 1984 | #909 | 164 | — | |
| 1983 | #890 | 170 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #853 | 182 | — | |
| 1981 | #768 | 212 | — | |
| 1980 | #700 | 243 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #621 | 283 | — | |
| 1978 | #630 | 265 | — | |
| 1977 | #618 | 271 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #529 | 331 | — | |
| 1975 | #525 | 334 | — | |
| 1974 | #549 | 306 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #543 | 307 | — | |
| 1972 | #658 | 230 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #692 | 220 | — | |
| 1970 | #697 | 225 | — | |
| 1969 | #774 | 173 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,074 | 97 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,071 | 94 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,463 | 57 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,337 | 67 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,708 | 46 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,922 | 37 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,414 | 25 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,036 | 33 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,061 | 31 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,254 | 14 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,376 | 23 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,823 | 17 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,839 | 16 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
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| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | — | |
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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 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- West Virginia#272 · 1 in 1,740
- Oregon#330 · 1 in 1,865
- Kansas#334 · 1 in 2,054
- Maryland#398 · 1 in 2,782
- Ohio#426 · 1 in 3,604
Best ever in a state: #189 in Maine, 1978.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | #272 | 7 | 1 in 1,740 |
| Oregon | #330 | 9 | 1 in 1,865 |
| Kansas | #334 | 7 | 1 in 2,054 |
| Maryland | #398 | 7 | 1 in 2,782 |
| Ohio | #426 | 20 | 1 in 3,604 |
| Minnesota | #432 | 7 | 1 in 3,968 |
| Alabama | #475 | 7 | 1 in 3,274 |
| Virginia | #512 | 7 | 1 in 4,169 |
| Missouri | #519 | 7 | 1 in 4,613 |
| New Jersey | #543 | 9 | 1 in 4,132 |
| Indiana | #545 | 7 | 1 in 5,177 |
| Washington | #562 | 6 | 1 in 4,220 |
| Michigan | #588 | 11 | 1 in 5,417 |
| California | #623 | 35 | 1 in 4,667 |
| Pennsylvania | #636 | 11 | 1 in 6,219 |
| Illinois | #647 | 14 | 1 in 5,335 |
| Texas | #691 | 21 | 1 in 5,291 |
| North Carolina | #722 | 5 | 1 in 6,572 |
| New York | #778 | 15 | 1 in 6,595 |
| Florida | #877 | 6 | 1 in 7,812 |
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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 Ami
- 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)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1975 at #525 (334 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 1969–1987
- 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%)
- 36.1% of all girls named Ami (2,772) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,295 (1947) | #5,295 |
| 1950s | 120 | #2,376 (1958) | #3,740 |
| 1960s | 660 | #774 (1969) | #1,586 |
| 1970s | 2,772 | #525 (1975) | #606 |
| 1980s | 1,747 | #700 (1980) | #939 |
| 1990s | 852 | #1,395 (1991) | #1,795 |
| 2000s | 691 | #2,088 (2005) | #2,495 |
| 2010s | 506 | #2,654 (2012) | #3,266 |
| 2020s | 325 | #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 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 5,672 of them was named Ami, which outranked 94.8% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.