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Amma

#9,497 in 2025Girls' name

From Danish Amalie; literal meaning unconfirmed

Amma has been given to 579 babies in the U.S. since 1886. In 2025 it ranked #9,497 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Amma, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Amma: meaning, origin, and history

From Danish Amalie; literal meaning unconfirmed

Danish

What Amma means

Amma is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Amma is used in Greenlandic. Its origins include Danish.

Amma comes through Danish Amalie.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Greenlandic, Amma is pronounced /amma/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 579 girls were recorded with the name Amma between 1886 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2019; its best national rank was #942 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,260 in 2020 to #9,497 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,908 in 2015 to #9,497 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 Amma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,497
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Amma 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Amma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ammas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Amma was born before 1975 — so the typical Amma is around 50 today.

Median birth year
1975
About 50 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
305
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 13.6% of all recorded uses (79).

Is Amma 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
+5,945
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,763
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,411
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2019 (14)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#942
1887

Spellings of Amma

Amma is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 18.9% against Amma'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 Amma is used

Across 1910–2025, Amma was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,478,732 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Amma has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Amma around the world

Where Amma 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
    1997–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    2010–2024
    #6,395
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–1992
    #704
    in 1992

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.

Amma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,497
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,763
Best rank ever
#942
1887
Peak year
2019
14 that year
First recorded
1886
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
579
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Amma

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

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Sibling names for Amma

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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