Amaka

Girls' name

Short form of Chiamaka

Amaka has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 1996, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Amaka, 2021

1 in 678,000

Amaka over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amaka: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Chiamaka

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amaka means

Amaka is a short form of Chiamaka.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Amaka is used in Igbo.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Amaka → Chiamaka. The family’s meaning is “God is more beautiful”, recorded in the naming reference for Chiamaka.

Origin, language, and formation

Amaka is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Chiamaka.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 107 girls were recorded with the name Amaka between 1982 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1996; its best national rank was #8,846 in 1996.

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 Amaka?

Amaka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Amaka 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amaka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amakas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amaka was born before 1999 — so the typical Amaka is around 26 today.

Median birth year: 1999; About 26 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 68.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 107; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (49).

Is Amaka 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: —; 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 1996 (9)
Years since peak: 29; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,846; 1996

Spellings of Amaka

Amaka is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 48.8% against Amaka's <0.01%.

Amanda48.8%790,638
Tamara8.1%131,286
Maya7.6%123,587
Alana4.2%68,264
Amaya2.7%43,525
Amara1.8%28,982
Amira1.6%25,609
Mara1.5%24,038

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Amaka around the world

Where Amaka 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
2003–2024
#5,892
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Amaka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,846; 1996
Peak year: 1996; 9 that year
First recorded: 1982
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 107
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Amaka

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

Amaly Amavi Amary Amany Amaal Amadi Amanah Amayla Amaani Amali Amaru Amazyn Amadea Amazin Amarya Amala Amanat Amare Amariz Amanii Amai Amalee Amarae Amana

Sibling names for Amaka

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

For a sister

Iman Breann Cinthia Katia Kaela Tristan Lexus Estefania

For a brother

Claudio Dontae Deion Hernan Dangelo Samual Tristin Rashawn

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