Amma

Where Amma comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Amma.

  • Vowel-ended
Amma through the years
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #937
    7 babies named Amma, its best rank.
  3. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1956
    Amma Darko born
    Ghanaian writer
  5. 1969
    Amma Asante born
    British actor and film director
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Amma Darko · Ghanaian writer, born 1956
  • Amma Asante · British actor and film director, born 1969
  • Amma Asante · Ghanaian-Dutch former politician, born 1972
  • Amma Naidoo · South African freedom fighter, 1908–1993
  • Amma Twum-Amoah · Ghanaian diplomat

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.