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Amala

#7,155 in 2025Girls' name

Spotless, stainless, immaculate, through अमला

Amala has been given to 326 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #7,155 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Amala, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amala: meaning, origin, and history

Spotless, stainless, immaculate, through अमला

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amala means

Amala belongs to the name family reached through Amala → अमला. Its meaning is “spotless, stainless, immaculate”.

Origin, language, and formation

Amala is used in English.

Amala comes through Sanskrit अमला.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अमला.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 326 girls were recorded with the name Amala between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,752 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,672 in 2020 to #7,155 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,027 in 2015 to #7,155 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 Amala?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,155
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amala 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amalas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amala was born before 2016 — so the typical Amala is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
326
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Amala 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
−747
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,483
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+872
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.6%
Peak was 2023 (28)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
63.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,752
2023

Spellings of Amala

Amala is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 27.0% against Amala's 0.01%.

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 Amala is used

Across 1910–2025, Amala was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Amala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amala around the world

Where Amala 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
    2003–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025

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

Amala by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,155
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,483
Best rank ever
#4,752
2023
Peak year
2023
28 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
326
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Amala

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

AmareAmaliAmanaAmadiAmaalAmanyAmaryAmarriAmarAmahiaAmalyaAmauraAmarraAmalyAmarysAmayraNyalaAmaleeAmaniiAmaiAmarizAmariiNualaAnala

Sibling names for Amala

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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