Ah
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ah has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1884. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% boys, 22% girls all-time.
Babies named Ah, 1922
1 in 458,000
Ah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ah over time
In 1991, Ah went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ah?
Ah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1922, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1922
- 1 in 458,000
- 5 of 2,289,103 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 218,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1922
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 317,338 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1922 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 317,338 children born in 1922 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ah was born before 1915 — so the typical Ah is around 110 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 78.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 85.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 78.4% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Ah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1915 (10)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.8% average annual change
Where Ah is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Ah was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 10,685 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 11,111
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Ah is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Ah was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 46,187 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Hawaii1 in 50,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ah around the world
Where Ah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1954–1954#360in 1954
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.