Amon
#3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
- Peak · boys
- 1887 · 6 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,829since 1882
Amon over time
Rank among boys' names. Amon has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,036 | 40 |
| 2024 | #2,418 | 57 |
| 2023 | #2,078 | 71 |
| 2022 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #2,410 | 56 |
| 2020 | #2,366 | 56 |
| 2019 | #3,143 | 37 |
| 2018 | #2,472 | 52 |
| 2017 | #2,186 | 61 |
| 2016 | #2,587 | 48 |
| 2015 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #3,371 | 32 |
| 2013 | #2,848 | 40 |
| 2012 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #2,590 | 47 |
| 2010 | #3,014 | 38 |
| 2009 | #2,894 | 41 |
| 2008 | #2,632 | 47 |
| 2007 | #2,473 | 51 |
| 2006 | #1,967 | 68 |
| 2005 | #2,467 | 46 |
| 2004 | #2,238 | 51 |
| 2003 | #2,102 | 53 |
| 2002 | #2,943 | 31 |
| 2001 | #2,027 | 52 |
| 2000 | #2,525 | 37 |
| 1999 | #2,063 | 46 |
| 1998 | #1,957 | 49 |
| 1997 | #2,260 | 37 |
| 1996 | #2,911 | 25 |
| 1995 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #2,847 | 25 |
| 1993 | #2,786 | 25 |
| 1992 | #2,834 | 24 |
| 1991 | #2,915 | 22 |
| 1990 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | #2,682 | 21 |
| 1987 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #2,057 | 28 |
| 1985 | #3,070 | 15 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #1,787 | 31 |
| 1982 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #1,965 | 28 |
| 1979 | #2,379 | 20 |
| 1978 | #1,913 | 26 |
| 1977 | #1,948 | 25 |
| 1976 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #1,787 | 27 |
| 1974 | #1,790 | 26 |
| 1973 | #2,513 | 15 |
| 1972 | #1,966 | 21 |
| 1971 | #2,558 | 14 |
| 1970 | #2,125 | 18 |
| 1969 | #2,549 | 12 |
| 1968 | #2,907 | 9 |
| 1967 | #2,985 | 8 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,982 | 8 |
| 1964 | #3,050 | 8 |
| 1963 | #3,318 | 7 |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #2,535 | 11 |
| 1959 | #2,663 | 10 |
| 1958 | #3,033 | 8 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,497 | 11 |
| 1955 | #2,139 | 14 |
| 1954 | #2,942 | 8 |
| 1953 | #2,038 | 15 |
| 1952 | #2,073 | 14 |
| 1951 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #2,321 | 11 |
| 1949 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | #2,218 | 12 |
| 1947 | #2,356 | 11 |
| 1946 | #2,534 | 9 |
| 1945 | #2,242 | 10 |
| 1944 | #2,195 | 11 |
| 1943 | #2,277 | 11 |
| 1942 | #2,712 | 8 |
| 1941 | #1,903 | 14 |
| 1940 | #2,081 | 12 |
| 1939 | #2,159 | 11 |
| 1938 | #1,689 | 17 |
| 1937 | #2,332 | 10 |
| 1936 | #1,540 | 19 |
| 1935 | #2,127 | 12 |
| 1934 | #1,658 | 18 |
| 1933 | #1,540 | 20 |
| 1932 | #1,509 | 22 |
| 1931 | #2,471 | 10 |
| 1930 | #1,693 | 19 |
| 1929 | #2,317 | 12 |
| 1928 | #1,902 | 17 |
| 1927 | #1,748 | 20 |
| 1926 | #1,720 | 20 |
| 1925 | #1,806 | 19 |
| 1924 | #2,229 | 14 |
| 1923 | #1,213 | 35 |
| 1922 | #1,333 | 30 |
| 1921 | #1,329 | 31 |
| 1920 | #1,592 | 23 |
| 1919 | #1,481 | 24 |
| 1918 | #1,539 | 23 |
| 1917 | #1,222 | 31 |
| 1916 | #1,240 | 29 |
| 1915 | #1,410 | 23 |
| 1914 | #1,388 | 19 |
| 1913 | #1,676 | 11 |
| 1912 | #1,095 | 18 |
| 1911 | #1,537 | 6 |
| 1910 | #1,314 | 7 |
| 1909 | #1,440 | 5 |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,345 | 5 |
| 1906 | #1,111 | 6 |
| 1905 | #1,002 | 7 |
| 1904 | #966 | 7 |
| 1903 | — | |
| 1902 | — | |
| 1901 | — | |
| 1900 | — | |
| 1899 | — | |
| 1898 | #1,002 | 6 |
| 1897 | — | |
| 1896 | #1,101 | 5 |
| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,074 | 5 |
| 1893 | — | |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #963 | 5 |
| 1890 | #994 | 5 |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | — | |
| 1887 | #819 | 6 |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #943 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Amon! It came in at #943, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1886, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Amon is popular in 1940
No state had 5 or more boys named Amon in 1940, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Amon
- 618 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #3,036)
- 670 spots since 2020 (#2,366 → #3,036)
- 555 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #3,036)
- Biggest jump: 31 spots in 1891 (#994 → #963)
- Biggest drop: 36 spots in 1905 (#966 → #1,002)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1887 at #819 (6 births)
- Births halved by 1888, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 1890–1891
- Highest: 1 in 16,902 boys born in 1887 were named Amon (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,702 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 16.9% of all boys named Amon (477) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | #819 (1887) | #881 |
| 1890s | 26 | #963 (1891) | #1,027 |
| 1900s | 30 | #966 (1904) | #1,173 |
| 1910s | 191 | #1,095 (1912) | #1,390 |
| 1920s | 221 | #1,213 (1923) | #1,719 |
| 1930s | 158 | #1,509 (1932) | #1,872 |
| 1940s | 105 | #1,903 (1941) | #2,354 |
| 1950s | 99 | #2,038 (1953) | #2,506 |
| 1960s | 75 | #2,535 (1960) | #3,077 |
| 1970s | 212 | #1,787 (1975) | #2,122 |
| 1980s | 194 | #1,787 (1983) | #2,832 |
| 1990s | 285 | #1,957 (1998) | #2,805 |
| 2000s | 477 | #1,967 (2006) | #2,427 |
| 2010s | 421 | #2,186 (2017) | #2,892 |
| 2020s | 324 | #2,078 (2023) | #2,530 |
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.
Amon in 1940
Top boys' names in 1940
More about 1940
boys
1,159,172 boys got a published name in 1940; 1 in 96,598 of them was named Amon, which outranked 47.1% of the 3,937 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,983Wray13
- #1,983Wynn13
- #1,983Young13
- #2,081Amon12
- #2,081Adron12
- #2,081Almer12
- #2,081Americo12
- #2,179Adrien11
- #2,179Allard11
- #2,179Alston11
Tied with 97 names at #2,081; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.