Amish
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Amish has been given to 294 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1981, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Amish, 2016
1 in 612,000
Amish 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Amish?
Amish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Amish sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Amishs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Amish was born before 1984 — so the typical Amish is around 41 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 32.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 34.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 294
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (94).
Is Amish 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- 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
- 0%
- Peak was 1981 (17)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.5% average annual change
Spellings of Amish
Amish is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 37.5% against Amish'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 Amish is used
Across 1910–2025, Amish was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,333,871 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 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. Amish has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Amish around the world
Where Amish 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 & Wales1996–2010#3,865in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Amish by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Amish
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Amish
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.