Meaning not yet researched.
Amen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,871 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,871 in 2015; #2,036 in 2025. About 66% of babies named Amen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,036 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #1,871.
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Amen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,871 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 79 (2019).
In 2025, 73 US boys were named Amen, making it the 2,036th most common boys’ name of the year, up 99 places from #2,135 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 69 boys named Amen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,871, reached in 2015. The most boys given the name in a single year was 79, in 2019. For comparison, it was #1,871 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 37 US girls were named Amen, making it the 3,909th most common girls’ name of the year, down 627 places from #3,282 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 48 girls named Amen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,197, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 82. For comparison, it was #3,180 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amen in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 2,161 US babies have been given the name, 42% of them girls and 58% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,023 babies named Amen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 714 US boys were named Amen; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,398 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amen ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #1,222 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ammon (4,339 babies since 1880), Amin (3,440 babies since 1880), Ayman (2,931 babies since 1880) and Amon (2,829 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ahmeen 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ahmeen (15).
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 Amen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 6 | #1,222 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,352 | #1,543 |
| California | 6 | #2,220 | #1,881 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,909 | 73 | #2,036 |
| 2024 | 48 | #3,282 | 69 | #2,135 |
| 2023 | 56 | #2,979 | 77 | #1,986 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,694 | 58 | #2,410 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,677 | 77 | #1,943 |
| 2020 | 82 | #2,197 | 65 | #2,140 |
| 2019 | 74 | #2,402 | 79 | #1,888 |
| 2018 | 73 | #2,438 | 68 | #2,084 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,967 | 76 | #1,897 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,233 | 72 | #1,994 |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,180 | 78 | #1,871 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,010 | 45 | #2,665 |
| 2013 | 41 | #3,707 | 47 | #2,565 |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,129 | 35 | #3,181 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,139 | 34 | #3,237 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,398 | 34 | #3,243 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,331 | 28 | #3,726 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,099 | 15 | #5,777 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,867 | 15 | #5,668 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,269 | 15 | #5,535 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,654 | 21 | #4,200 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,290 | 24 | #3,740 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,082 | 9 | #7,266 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,719 | 12 | #5,746 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,470 |
| 2000 | — | — | 9 | #6,866 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,455 | 8 | #7,175 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,536 | 9 | #6,345 |
| 1997 | — | — | 11 | #5,300 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #5,999 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #8,932 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,469 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,249 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,308 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #5,849 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,476 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #5,812 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,278 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,290 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,815 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,147 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #4,819 |
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).