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Amogh vs Amon

American parents have registered 2,829 Amons since 1880, against 722 Amoghs. Amon is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amogh against Amon, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amogh Amon

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 126 years in which either name was published, Amon for 123 years and Amogh for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Amogh Amon
Total US births 7222,829
Most in one year 5671
Babies in 2025 2240
Estimated living today 7102,100
Median age today 1621
Peak year 20082023
Best rank 2,327th boys2,078th boys
Rank in 2025 4,539th3,036th
First recorded 19961882
Girls / boys 0 / 7220 / 2,829

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 Amons alive today are over 21; half the Amoghs are over 16. That is 5 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 Amogh Amon
England and Wales 3734

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: Amogh and Amon.