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Amoni vs Amorah

American parents have registered 1,744 Amonis since 1880, against 840 Amorahs. But in 2025 it was Amorah that was commoner, 80 babies to 64.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amoni against Amorah, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amoni Amorah

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 35 years in which either name was published, Amoni for 29 years and Amorah for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Amoni Amorah
Total US births 1,744840
Most in one year 77101
Babies in 2025 6480
Estimated living today 1,700840
Median age today 135
Peak year 20122020
Best rank 2,805th girls1,893rd girls
Rank in 2025 3,517th2,276th
First recorded 19912005
Girls / boys 1,456 / 288840 / 0

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 Amonis alive today are over 13; half the Amorahs are over 5. That is 8 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: Amoni and Amorah.