Meaning not yet researched.
Amani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 419 in 2025. Its best rank was #553 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #553 in 2010; #678 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Amani in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#678 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #553.
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Amani: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 419 girls in 2025. Peak: #553 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 529 (2008).
In 2025, 419 US girls were named Amani, making it the 678th most common girls’ name of the year, down 42 places from #636 in 2024. That is 45 fewer than the 464 girls named Amani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #553, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 529, in 2008. For comparison, it was #729 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 107 US boys were named Amani, making it the 1,585th most common boys’ name of the year, down 309 places from #1,276 in 2024. That is 47 fewer than the 154 boys named Amani in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,264, reached in 2008. The most boys given the name in a single year was 154, in 2024. For comparison, it was #1,849 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amani in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 6 babies. In all, 16,330 US babies have been given the name, 82% of them girls and 18% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,274 babies named Amani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,280 US girls were named Amani; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 513. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,836 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amani ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #305 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amoni (1,744 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ahmani, Amonie and Aamani are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ahmani (635), Amonie (359), Aamani (240), Amany (202), Amanie (186), Amanii (186), Amanee (164), Amaani (114), Ahmoni (80), Amenia (51), Amanni (43), Amahni (41), 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 Amani 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 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #305 | — |
| Maryland | 16 | #330 | #417 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #378 | #672 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #409 | #515 |
| Illinois | 25 | #420 | #636 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #442 | #487 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #463 | #451 |
| Oregon | 7 | #487 | — |
| Iowa | 6 | #500 | #600 |
| Georgia | 20 | #546 | #402 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #559 | #439 |
| Alabama | 8 | #577 | #693 |
| Michigan | 13 | #594 | #627 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #602 | #330 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #603 | #541 |
| Virginia | 12 | #613 | #475 |
| Ohio | 16 | #622 | #620 |
| Arizona | 10 | #633 | #846 |
| Texas | 45 | #675 | #750 |
| Florida | 24 | #693 | #570 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #703 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #713 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #731 | #956 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #749 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #752 | #679 |
| Washington | 7 | #816 | #1,124 |
| Indiana | 7 | #823 | #689 |
| New York | 19 | #833 | #965 |
| California | 30 | #939 | #1,662 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 419 | #678 | 107 | #1,585 |
| 2024 | 464 | #636 | 154 | #1,276 |
| 2023 | 481 | #621 | 120 | #1,489 |
| 2022 | 513 | #584 | 93 | #1,771 |
| 2021 | 424 | #685 | 72 | #2,041 |
| 2020 | 437 | #659 | 80 | #1,849 |
| 2019 | 403 | #708 | 73 | #2,002 |
| 2018 | 374 | #741 | 67 | #2,102 |
| 2017 | 363 | #763 | 75 | #1,920 |
| 2016 | 402 | #708 | 72 | #1,993 |
| 2015 | 389 | #729 | 80 | #1,849 |
| 2014 | 441 | #646 | 75 | #1,920 |
| 2013 | 482 | #589 | 78 | #1,827 |
| 2012 | 512 | #574 | 116 | #1,429 |
| 2011 | 520 | #562 | 110 | #1,476 |
| 2010 | 528 | #553 | 114 | #1,448 |
| 2009 | 524 | #580 | 116 | #1,443 |
| 2008 | 529 | #586 | 138 | #1,264 |
| 2007 | 456 | #650 | 103 | #1,527 |
| 2006 | 411 | #686 | 126 | #1,306 |
| 2005 | 431 | #644 | 87 | #1,584 |
| 2004 | 468 | #597 | 113 | #1,309 |
| 2003 | 368 | #709 | 75 | #1,656 |
| 2002 | 372 | #675 | 71 | #1,660 |
| 2001 | 339 | #719 | 89 | #1,400 |
| 2000 | 308 | #747 | 71 | #1,642 |
| 1999 | 277 | #791 | 60 | #1,721 |
| 1998 | 298 | #733 | 61 | #1,680 |
| 1997 | 252 | #820 | 51 | #1,836 |
| 1996 | 242 | #827 | 55 | #1,706 |
| 1995 | 187 | #1,002 | 44 | #1,916 |
| 1994 | 159 | #1,129 | 31 | #2,445 |
| 1993 | 121 | #1,359 | 15 | #4,023 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,713 | 18 | #3,462 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,014 | 12 | #4,490 |
| 1990 | 53 | #2,346 | 8 | #5,847 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,339 | 8 | #5,643 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,541 | — | — |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,629 | 5 | #6,993 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,195 | — | — |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,422 | — | — |
| 1983 | 25 | #3,246 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,723 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,536 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,251 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,631 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,941 | 6 | #5,089 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,695 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,317 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,194 | 7 | #4,331 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,231 | 10 | #3,329 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,881 | — | — |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,532 | 9 | #3,352 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,538 | 8 | #3,671 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,071 | 7 | #3,859 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,641 | — | — |
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).