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Ama

#7,504 in 2025Girls' name

Born on Saturday

Ama has been given to 1,050 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #7,504 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Ama, 2025

1 in 237,000

Ama over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ama: meaning, origin, and history

Born on Saturday

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ama means

Ama means “born on Saturday”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ama is used in English and Pazeh.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,050 girls were recorded with the name Ama between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2019; its best national rank was #846 in 1885.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,437 in 2020 to #7,504 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,480 in 2015 to #7,504 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ama?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,504
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ama sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ama. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ama was born before 1991 — so the typical Ama is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
15.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
735
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 15.7% of all recorded uses (165).

Is Ama 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
−1,097
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+933
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+976
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
56.0%
Peak was 2019 (25)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#846
1885

Where Ama is used

Across 1910–2025, Ama was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 626,957 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Kentucky1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

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. Ama has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ama around the world

Where Ama 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.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #2,642
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Ama by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,504
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 933
Best rank ever
#846
1885
Peak year
2019
25 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,050
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Ama

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ama

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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