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Amma vs Ammon

American parents have registered 4,339 Ammons since 1880, against 579 Ammas. Ammon is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amma against Ammon, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amma Ammon

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 136 years in which either name was published, Ammon for 124 years and Amma for 12 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Amma Ammon
Total US births 5794,339
Most in one year 14133
Babies in 2025 1045
Estimated living today 3203,700
Median age today 2223
Peak year 20192002
Best rank 7,716th girls1,098th boys
Rank in 2025 9,457th2,798th
First recorded 18861881
Girls / boys 579 / 00 / 4,339

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.

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