Amma

Where Amma comes from

Amma hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #937
    7 babies named Amma — more than any year before or since.
  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

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

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.