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Amal

#1,241 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Hope

Amal has been given to 4,513 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #1,241 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 241 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.

Babies named Amal, 2025

1 in 18,300

Amal over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Amal over time

In 2025, Amal went to 92% girls and 8% boys.

19622025

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.

Amal: meaning, origin, and history

Hope

Arabic

What Amal means

Amal means “hope”, associated with ʔamal.

Origin, language, and formation

Amal is used in English and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Amal comes through Arabic أَمَل.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,141 girls were recorded with the name Amal between 1962 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 241 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,045 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,120 in 2020 to #1,241 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,779 in 2015 to #1,241 in 2025.

In the United States, 372 boys were recorded with the name Amal between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2002; its best national rank was #3,855 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,522 in 2020 to #5,618 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,335 in 2015 to #5,618 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 Amal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,300
181 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,880
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,241
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,697 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amal 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,697 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amal was born before 2014 — so the typical Amal is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,141
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (1,230).

Is Amal 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
−18
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−121
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+538
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.1%
Peak was 2021 (241)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,045
2021

Spellings of Amal

Amal is not the most common spelling — Amy is, with 34.6% against Amal's 0.20%.

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.

Where Amal is used — girls

Across 2016–2025, Amal was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,439 girls, against 1 in 6,714 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

241 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,439
  2. 2New York1 in 3,226
  3. 3Michigan1 in 3,571
  4. 4Virginia1 in 3,704
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 4,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 4,167
  7. 7Maryland1 in 5,556
  8. 8Washington1 in 6,667

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.

Where Amal is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Amal was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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

Amal around the world

Where Amal 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
    1996–2025
    #177
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1982–2025
    #284
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2006–2025
    #304
    in 2025
  • France
    1961–2025
    #734
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #364
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #423
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1965–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Amal

People whose public names include Amal, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Amal in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Amal. Linked forms have their own page here.

Amale

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Amal by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,241
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 121
Best rank ever
#1,045
2021
Peak year
2021
241 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,141
Count in 2025
181

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,618
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,904
Best rank ever
#3,855
1970
Peak year
2002
16 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
372
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Amal

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

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Names with a curve like Amal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Amal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Amal

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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