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Amairany vs Amani

American parents have registered 16,330 Amanis since 1880, against 1,443 Amairanys. Amani is still ahead, with 526 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amairany against Amani, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amairany Amani

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Amani has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1993, when Amairany had 41 and Amani had 136.

Side by side

  Amairany Amani
Total US births 1,44316,330
Most in one year 65667
Babies in 2025 34526
Estimated living today 1,40016,000
Median age today 1415
Peak year 20172008
Best rank 2,664th girls585th girls
Rank in 2025 4,172nd678th
First recorded 19901969
Girls / boys 1,443 / 013,440 / 2,890

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Amairany and Amani.