girls:
1k births since 1885
#4699 (18th percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1885
#6722 (13th percentile)
The name Ama is the #6,722 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,017 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 13.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,699 (17.8% percentile) for all time with 1,017 births since 1885.
Ama first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (first recorded for girls in 1885). Birth data for Ama is available in 95 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Ama reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #925) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 49 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ama ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 24.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ama".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ama. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Ama is pronounced as AH-muh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-muh, at 29.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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