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Ammie vs Ammon

American parents have registered 4,339 Ammons since 1880, against 2,607 Ammies. Ammon is still ahead, with 45 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ammie 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 142 years in which either name was published, Ammie for 91 years and Ammon for 51 years. The lead changed hands 12 times.

6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Ammie Ammon
Total US births 2,6074,339
Most in one year 69133
Babies in 2025 under 545
Estimated living today 1,5003,700
Median age today 4823
Peak year 19732002
Best rank 1,418th girls1,098th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked2,798th
First recorded 18831881
Girls / boys 2,575 / 320 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Ammies alive today are over 48; half the Ammons are over 23. 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: Ammie and Ammon.