Meaning not yet researched.
Amal: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 181 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,045 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,045 in 2021; #1,241 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Amal in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,241 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,045.
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Amal: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 181 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,045 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 241 (2021).
In 2025, 181 US girls were named Amal, making it the 1,241st most common girls’ name of the year, down 18 places from #1,223 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 192 girls named Amal in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,045, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 241. For comparison, it was #1,779 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amal in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 4,513 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,298 babies named Amal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,901 US girls were named Amal; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 241. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,880 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amal ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #461 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Amiel, Amel and Amol are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Amiel (1,313), Amel (1,106), Amol (237), Amaal (210), Amell (94), Amael (55), Amahle (48), Aamil (34), Amuel (28), Ahmil (20), Ameal (17), Aimal (6), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Amal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 11 | #461 | #477 |
| New York | 28 | #588 | #1,215 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #622 | #1,191 |
| Michigan | 12 | #638 | #725 |
| Virginia | 9 | #762 | #1,227 |
| Maryland | 5 | #851 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #932 | #1,064 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,020 | — |
| Texas | 24 | #1,122 | #1,718 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,280 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,581 | #2,508 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,703 | #1,489 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 181 | #1,241 | 16 | #5,620 |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,223 | 10 | #7,800 |
| 2023 | 201 | #1,196 | 11 | #7,313 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,208 | 15 | #5,891 |
| 2021 | 241 | #1,045 | 6 | #10,870 |
| 2020 | 215 | #1,120 | 10 | #7,527 |
| 2019 | 179 | #1,287 | 8 | #8,938 |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,262 | 7 | #9,731 |
| 2017 | 173 | #1,340 | 9 | #8,184 |
| 2016 | 136 | #1,615 | 8 | #8,870 |
| 2015 | 117 | #1,779 | 13 | #6,339 |
| 2014 | 87 | #2,178 | 5 | #12,205 |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,570 | 9 | #8,146 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 2011 | 63 | #2,767 | 8 | #8,799 |
| 2010 | 53 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 2009 | 64 | #2,781 | 5 | #12,582 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,631 | 10 | #7,717 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,294 | 12 | #6,640 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,888 | 9 | #8,023 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,528 | 5 | #11,549 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,371 | 14 | #5,506 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,947 | 12 | #5,891 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,606 | 16 | #4,713 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,820 | 9 | #6,948 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,213 | 8 | #7,458 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,472 | 12 | #5,331 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,222 | 13 | #4,885 |
| 1997 | 53 | #2,451 | 10 | #5,659 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,209 | 9 | #5,997 |
| 1995 | 57 | #2,311 | 5 | #8,929 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,704 | 7 | #6,995 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,827 | 9 | #5,782 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,241 | 7 | #6,693 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,845 | 5 | #8,271 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,572 | 6 | #7,212 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,479 | 9 | #5,179 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,804 | 6 | #6,453 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,660 | — | — |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,730 | 6 | #5,953 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,420 | 5 | #6,564 |
| 1984 | 29 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,482 | 8 | #4,518 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,175 | — | — |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,850 | 6 | #5,499 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,511 | — | — |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,080 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,252 | 7 | #4,572 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,179 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,969 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,639 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,202 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,094 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,634 | — | — |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,876 | 7 | #3,857 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,059 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,653 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #4,995 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,827 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,871 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).