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Amon vs Amonte

American parents have registered 2,829 Amons since 1880, against 730 Amontes. Amon is still ahead, with 40 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amon Amonte

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

Amon has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2002, when Amon had 31 and Amonte had 30.

Side by side

  Amon Amonte
Total US births 2,829730
Most in one year 7140
Babies in 2025 4013
Estimated living today 2,100720
Median age today 2118
Peak year 20232007
Best rank 2,078th boys2,920th boys
Rank in 2025 3,036th6,446th
First recorded 18821990
Girls / boys 0 / 2,8290 / 730

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 Amontes are over 18. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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