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Amina vs Amit

American parents have registered 19,270 Aminas since 1880, against 3,101 Amits. Amina is still ahead, with 970 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amina against Amit, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amina Amit

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

Of the 64 years in which either name was published, Amina for 51 years and Amit for 13 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Amina Amit
Total US births 19,2703,101
Most in one year 1,180135
Babies in 2025 9709
Estimated living today 19,0003,000
Median age today 935
Peak year 20171983
Best rank 271st girls743rd boys
Rank in 2025 315th8,243rd
First recorded 19431965
Girls / boys 19,270 / 0202 / 2,899

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 Amits alive today are over 35; half the Aminas are over 9. That is 26 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 Amina Amit
France 15,69525
England and Wales 6,745214
Poland 36038
Scotland 2198

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: Amina and Amit.