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Ammon

#2,797 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Egyptian Yamanu

Ammon has been given to 4,339 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #2,797 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 133 recorded.

Babies named Ammon, 2025

1 in 73,700

Ammon over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ammon: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Egyptian Yamanu

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ammon means

Ammon is a form of Egyptian Yamanu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Egyptian Yamanu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,339 boys were recorded with the name Ammon between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 133 in 2002; its best national rank was #602 in 1891.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,235 in 2020 to #2,797 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,853 in 2015 to #2,797 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.

How common is Ammon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 73,700
45 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,797
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
51,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ammon sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 51,066 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ammon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ammons were born

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

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,814
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Choose a decade

2000s — 25.7% of all recorded uses (1,115).

Is Ammon 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
+366
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−562
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−944
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.8%
Peak was 2002 (133)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#602
1891

Spellings of Ammon

Ammon is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 53.4% against Ammon's 0.38%.

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 Ammon is used

Across 1910–2025, Ammon was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,316 boys, against 1 in 42,881 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

076 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,316
  2. 2Idaho1 in 9,091
  3. 3Arizona1 in 12,500
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  5. 5Washington1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Hawaii1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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

Ammon around the world

Where Ammon 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.

  • Canada
    1992–2019
    #2,084
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1977–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Ammon

People whose public names include Ammon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ammon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,797
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 562
Best rank ever
#602
1891
Peak year
2002
133 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,339
Count in 2025
45

Names similar to Ammon

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

AmmarEamonArmonJamonWaymonShimonHarmonAmonRaymonDaemonSalomonDemonDaymonDesmonKemonHermonTimonSymonAlmonLamonDezmonDaimonLeamonEdmon

Names with a curve like Ammon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ammon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ammon

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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