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Amalia vs Amanuel

American parents have registered 16,478 Amalias since 1880, against 654 Amanuels. Amalia is still ahead, with 530 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amalia against Amanuel, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amalia Amanuel

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

Amalia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Amalia had 271 and Amanuel had 31.

Side by side

  Amalia Amanuel
Total US births 16,478654
Most in one year 57640
Babies in 2025 53014
Estimated living today 13,000650
Median age today 1612
Peak year 20232018
Best rank 528th girls2,943rd boys
Rank in 2025 566th6,143rd
First recorded 18801987
Girls / boys 16,478 / 00 / 654

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Amalias alive today are over 16; half the Amanuels are over 12. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Amalia Amanuel
France 4,94015
England and Wales 1,60261
Norway 217240

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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