Amharic Boy Names
Explore names documented in Amharic naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1997. | 59#2,333 | Down 1,160 rank positions in five years | 2011 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | 28#3,881 | Down 1,248 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1915. | 15#5,893 | Up 127 rank positions in five years | 1961 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1999. | 184#1,146 | Down 501 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1920. | —Unranked | — | 1996 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1965. | 18#5,329 | Up 51 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1978. | 23#4,519 | Down 262 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880. | —Unranked | — | 1937 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1996. | 25#4,197 | Down 1,522 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1961. | 6#11,817 | Down 6,395 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984. | 14#6,370 | Up 578 rank positions in five years | 2009 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1987. | 14#6,161 | Down 3,179 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1992. | 24#4,291 | Down 544 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984. | 18#5,251 | Down 682 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1912. | 8#8,919 | Up 1,700 rank positions in five years | 1921 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1986. | 21#4,850 | Up 588 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1985. | 7#10,649 | Down 86 rank positions in five years | 2003 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1991. | 16#5,772 | Down 795 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2003. | 22#4,649 | Down 660 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989. | 9#8,489 | Down 2,684 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994. | —Unranked | — | 2011 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1935. | 5#12,684 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 1935 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2002. | 11#7,255 | Up 5,003 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Documented Amharic usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2017. | —Unranked | — | 2017 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.