girls:
64 births since 1920
#5652 (1st percentile)
boys:
35.7k births since 1880
#600 (87th percentile)
overall:
35.8k births since 1880
#1323 (83rd percentile)
The name Amos is the #1,323 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 35,800 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #600 (86.9% percentile) for all time with 35,736 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,652 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1920.
Amos has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1920 for girls).
The name Amos has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Amos reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 59.7% percentile (ranked #216) with 515 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 1,116 births per million (ranked 52.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Amos ranks #544 for boys (40.3% percentile) with 226 births per million, which is 20.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Amos reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #596) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Amos".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Amos. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Amos is pronounced as AY-muhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-mohs, at 9.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like EY1 M AH0 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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