Meaning not yet researched.
Ames: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,695 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,695 in 2020; #1,754 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ames in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,754 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,695.
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Ames: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,695 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 93 (2023).
In 2025, 92 US boys were named Ames, making it the 1,754th most common boys’ name of the year, up 259 places from #2,013 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 76 boys named Ames in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,695, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 93, in 2023. For comparison, it was #2,459 in 2015 and #3,335 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ames in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 7 babies. In all, 1,865 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 531 babies named Ames.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 808 US boys were named Ames; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,566 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ames ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #644 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amos (36,600 babies since 1880) and Amias (3,116 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Ames 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 7 | #644 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,293 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,777 | — |
| California | 8 | #1,836 | #2,058 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,593 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 92 | #1,754 |
| 2024 | — | — | 76 | #2,013 |
| 2023 | — | — | 93 | #1,755 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,466 | 71 | #2,098 |
| 2021 | — | — | 89 | #1,785 |
| 2020 | — | — | 92 | #1,695 |
| 2019 | — | — | 69 | #2,081 |
| 2018 | — | — | 70 | #2,048 |
| 2017 | — | — | 69 | #2,033 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,424 | 87 | #1,763 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,459 |
| 2014 | — | — | 42 | #2,806 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,956 |
| 2012 | — | — | 56 | #2,295 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,437 |
| 2010 | — | — | 13 | #6,367 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,336 |
| 2008 | — | — | 15 | #5,778 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #10,999 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #10,748 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #8,968 |
| 2000 | — | — | 11 | #5,938 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,745 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,214 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,457 |
| 1988 | — | — | 22 | #2,603 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,344 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,783 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,611 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,614 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,273 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,712 |
| 1981 | — | — | 18 | #2,572 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,834 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,816 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,163 |
| 1977 | — | — | 14 | #2,915 |
| 1976 | — | — | 12 | #3,102 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,755 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #3,850 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,072 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,825 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #2,975 |
| 1970 | — | — | 14 | #2,511 |
| 1969 | — | — | 16 | #2,131 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,447 |
| 1967 | — | — | 11 | #2,475 |
| 1966 | — | — | 10 | #2,629 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #2,990 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,055 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,660 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,850 |
| 1961 | — | — | 10 | #2,710 |
| 1960 | — | — | 8 | #3,086 |
| 1959 | — | — | 9 | #2,829 |
| 1958 | — | — | 18 | #1,897 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,829 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,169 |
| 1955 | — | — | 9 | #2,772 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,183 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,540 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,682 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,373 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,335 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,031 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,792 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,377 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,190 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,347 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,636 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,582 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,149 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,186 |
| 1939 | — | — | 12 | #2,057 |
| 1938 | — | — | 7 | #2,878 |
| 1937 | — | — | 7 | #2,913 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,537 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,301 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,015 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,322 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,661 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,298 |
| 1929 | — | — | 10 | #2,602 |
| 1928 | — | — | 10 | #2,664 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #3,794 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,226 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,517 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,190 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,261 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,811 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,220 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,409 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,110 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,228 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,395 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,633 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,275 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,282 |
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).