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Amany

#15,070 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Amani

Amany has been given to 202 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #15,070 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Amany, 2025

1 in 663,000

Amany over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amany: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Amani

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Amany means

Amany is a alternate transcription of Amani.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Amany is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʔa.ˈmaː.niː/ for Amany.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Amany → Amani. The family’s meaning is “peace”, recorded in Swahili with the source elements amani.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amani.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 202 girls were recorded with the name Amany between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1996; its best national rank was #6,733 in 1983.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,540 in 2020 to #15,070 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 Amany?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,070
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amany 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amany. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Amanys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amany was born before 2000 — so the typical Amany is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
202
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (69).

Is Amany 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
−1,530
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 1996 (13)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,733
1983

Spellings of Amany

Amany is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 67.8% against Amany'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.

Amany around the world

Where Amany 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
    2002–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • France
    1988–2025
    #1,722
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2004
    #1,831
    in 2004

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.

Amany by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,070
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,530
Best rank ever
#6,733
1983
Peak year
1996
13 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
202
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Amany

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

AmaalAmadiAmaliAmaryAmayranyAmairanyAmalaAmareAmalyAmanaAmaleeAmaniiAmaiAmarysAmarizAmauraAmaviAmanatAmaryaAmadeaAmazinAmahiaAmazynAmarri

Sibling names for Amany

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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