Amil

Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to boys 78.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
1886 · 5 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
982
since 1886

Amil over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #2,940, 2000peak #959, 1886girlsboys
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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—#5,86115
2024#15,2935#4,32124
2023#15,1945#3,22837
2022—#3,10039
2021#13,4646#3,81428
2020—#2,92540
2019—#4,48022
2018#12,4647#4,91819
2017—#6,68512
2016—#4,32723
2015#16,4195#4,71120
2014—#5,06618
2013#14,5826#4,31322
2012#9,10912#5,48216
2011—#4,22123
2010#12,2768#6,03614
2009#7,67916#6,80212
2008—#5,76715
2007#8,52014#5,66115
2006#8,71513#5,78114
2005#7,50015#6,63411
2004#8,71612#5,81313
2003#5,79520#4,61617
2002#5,44421#6,08811
2001#3,63136#5,66712
2000#2,94048#5,04014
1999#9,4799#4,53715
1998—#5,84010
1997—#6,6188
1996—#7,1367
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1993—#7,6386
1992—#5,6609
1991—#7,2716
1990—#8,1175
1989—#5,6158
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1987—#3,95911
1986—#6,7215
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1984—#5,5616
1983—#4,9077
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1981—#6,2625
1980—#5,5256
1979—#3,81010
1978—#3,8579
1977—#5,8455
1976—#5,5875
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1972—#4,4416
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1967—#3,5596
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1950—#3,3296
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1947—#3,7335
1946—#2,40310
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1938—#3,1756
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1936—#3,5495
1935—#2,5299
1934—#3,2776
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1930—#3,0228
1929—#2,9808
1928—#2,52211
1927—#2,40812
1926—#3,7086
1925—#2,58811
1924—#3,8676
1923#4,3766#2,44612
1922—#1,82719
1921—#2,05916
1920—#1,69421
1919—#2,38512
1918—#1,53923
1917—#2,28012
1916—#2,04314
1915—#2,07013
1914—#2,2719
1913—#2,8215
1912—#2,2696
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First appearance
1886

The first year at least five boys were named Amil! It came in at #959, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1886–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Amil is popular in 1918

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
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Alaska: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedWIMichigan: #422 for boys · 5 births · 1 in 6,555 boysMINew York: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedHITexas: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedTXFlorida: fewer than 5 boys named Amil, so not publishedFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Michigan#422 · 1 in 6,555

Best ever in a state: #422 in Michigan, 1918.

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Michigan#42251 in 6,555
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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 Amil
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,540 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #5,861)
  • 2,936 spots since 2020 (#2,925 → #5,861)
  • 1,150 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #5,861)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1886
  • Peaked 1886 at #959 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1887, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1886
Share of babies · boys
1 in 22,157
  • Highest: 1 in 22,157 boys born in 1886 were named Amil (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 113,872 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 19.2% of all boys named Amil (189) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
  • Mostly girls until 2009, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#959 (1886)#959
1890s0——
1900s0——
1910s94#1,539 (1918)#2,210
1920s122#1,694 (1920)#2,610
1930s58#2,529 (1935)#3,177
1940s26#2,403 (1946)#3,253
1950s11#3,329 (1950)#3,661
1960s11#3,559 (1967)#3,799
1970s35#3,810 (1979)#4,708
1980s48#3,959 (1987)#5,507
1990s66#4,537 (1999)#6,602
2000s134#4,616 (2003)#5,787
2010s189#4,221 (2011)#5,024
2020s183#2,925 (2020)#3,875

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.

Amil in 1918

boys
#1,539
23 births · 1 in 44,064 boys

Top boys' names in 1918

  1. #1John56,558
  2. #2William45,291
  3. #3James42,115
  4. #4Robert40,619
  5. #5Charles26,921
  6. #6George26,318
  7. #7Joseph26,261
  8. #8Edward19,489
  9. #9Frank17,018
  10. #10Thomas13,910
  11. #1,539Amil23
More about 1918

boys

1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 44,064 of them was named Amil, which outranked 68.0% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amil
  1. #1,499Vinton24
  2. #1,499Westley24
  3. #1,499Zeno24
  4. #1,539Amil23
  5. #1,539Alfons23
  6. #1,539Amon23
  7. #1,539Arlis23
  8. #1,596Albertus22
  9. #1,596Alston22
  10. #1,596Alvaro22

Tied with 56 names at #1,539; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 600Quinton#1,092 → #492
  2. ↑ 542Pershing#876 → #334
  3. ↑ 480Quentin#723 → #243
  4. ↑ 440Issac#1,264 → #824
  5. ↑ 339Furman#1,092 → #753
Fallers
  1. ↓ 473Bernhard#900 → #1,373
  2. ↓ 424Edson#919 → #1,343
  3. ↓ 394Gasper#919 → #1,313
  4. ↓ 352Berton#934 → #1,286
  5. ↓ 346Ishmael#997 → #1,343

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

See the top 100 for 1918 →