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Amani vs Amaria

American parents have registered 16,330 Amanis since 1880, against 2,917 Amarias. Amani is still ahead, with 526 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amani Amaria

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 2003, when Amani had 443 and Amaria had 139.

Side by side

  Amani Amaria
Total US births 16,3302,917
Most in one year 667163
Babies in 2025 526111
Estimated living today 16,0002,900
Median age today 1514
Peak year 20082004
Best rank 585th girls1,344th girls
Rank in 2025 678th1,808th
First recorded 19691990
Girls / boys 13,440 / 2,8902,912 / 5

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Amani Amaria
France 1,945575
England and Wales 2,04858
Switzerland 1164

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: Amani and Amaria.