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Amanda vs Amayrani

American parents have registered 792,774 Amandas since 1880, against 764 Amayranis. Amanda is still ahead, with 601 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amanda against Amayrani, 1880 to 2025 0 12.5k 25k 37.5k 50k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amanda Amayrani

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

Amanda 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 2024, when Amanda had 621 and Amayrani had 34.

Side by side

  Amanda Amayrani
Total US births 792,774764
Most in one year 41,90935
Babies in 2025 60124
Estimated living today 748,000760
Median age today 3914
Peak year 19872010
Best rank 3rd girls4,180th girls
Rank in 2025 493rd5,238th
First recorded 18801991
Girls / boys 790,638 / 2,136764 / 0

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 Amandas alive today are over 39; half the Amayranis are over 14. That is 25 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.

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