Ame
#13,305 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ame has been given to 385 babies in the U.S. since 1962. In 2025 it ranked #13,305 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1974, with 28 recorded.
Babies named Ame, 2025
1 in 553,000
Ame over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ame?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #13,305
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ame sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ame. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ames were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ame was born before 1978 — so the typical Ame is around 47 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 42.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 379
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (161).
Is Ame 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
- +1,941
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 21.4%
- Peak was 1974 (28)
- Years since peak
- 51
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.8% average annual change
Ame around the world
Where Ame 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 & Wales1997–2006#5,061in 2006
- France2015–2015#6,917in 2015
- South Australia1984–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ame by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Ame
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ame
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.