Meaning not yet researched.
Amon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #823 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #823 in 1887; #3,038 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,038 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #823.
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Amon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #823 in 1887 · most boys in one year: 71 (2023).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Amon, making it the 3,038th most common boys’ name of the year, down 616 places from #2,422 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 57 boys named Amon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #823, reached in 1887. The most boys given the name in a single year was 71, in 2023. For comparison, it was #3,595 in 2015 and #2,325 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amon in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 2,829 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 477 babies named Amon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 522 US boys were named Amon; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 71. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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 Aman (2,633 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 Amon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 40 | #3,038 |
| 2024 | — | — | 57 | #2,422 |
| 2023 | — | — | 71 | #2,080 |
| 2022 | — | — | 44 | #2,875 |
| 2021 | — | — | 56 | #2,412 |
| 2020 | — | — | 56 | #2,368 |
| 2019 | — | — | 37 | #3,145 |
| 2018 | — | — | 52 | #2,475 |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | #2,189 |
| 2016 | — | — | 48 | #2,589 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,595 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,377 |
| 2013 | — | — | 40 | #2,851 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,117 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,591 |
| 2010 | — | — | 38 | #3,018 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,900 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,635 |
| 2007 | — | — | 51 | #2,475 |
| 2006 | — | — | 68 | #1,967 |
| 2005 | — | — | 46 | #2,468 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,244 |
| 2003 | — | — | 53 | #2,104 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #2,947 |
| 2001 | — | — | 52 | #2,030 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,527 |
| 1999 | — | — | 46 | #2,064 |
| 1998 | — | — | 49 | #1,958 |
| 1997 | — | — | 37 | #2,261 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,916 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,702 |
| 1994 | — | — | 25 | #2,853 |
| 1993 | — | — | 25 | #2,788 |
| 1992 | — | — | 24 | #2,839 |
| 1991 | — | — | 22 | #2,916 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,787 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #2,994 |
| 1988 | — | — | 21 | #2,687 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,248 |
| 1986 | — | — | 28 | #2,057 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,077 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,829 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,788 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,115 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,612 |
| 1980 | — | — | 28 | #1,967 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,383 |
| 1978 | — | — | 26 | #1,915 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #1,948 |
| 1976 | — | — | 20 | #2,248 |
| 1975 | — | — | 27 | #1,789 |
| 1974 | — | — | 26 | #1,793 |
| 1973 | — | — | 15 | #2,514 |
| 1972 | — | — | 21 | #1,971 |
| 1971 | — | — | 14 | #2,562 |
| 1970 | — | — | 18 | #2,125 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,552 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #2,911 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #2,992 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #2,991 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,056 |
| 1963 | — | — | 7 | #3,326 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,316 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,083 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,538 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,667 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,039 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,497 |
| 1955 | — | — | 14 | #2,144 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #2,950 |
| 1953 | — | — | 15 | #2,043 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,077 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #2,850 |
| 1950 | — | — | 11 | #2,325 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,033 |
| 1948 | — | — | 12 | #2,222 |
| 1947 | — | — | 11 | #2,360 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,539 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,247 |
| 1944 | — | — | 11 | #2,199 |
| 1943 | — | — | 11 | #2,284 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,716 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,908 |
| 1940 | — | — | 12 | #2,084 |
| 1939 | — | — | 11 | #2,163 |
| 1938 | — | — | 17 | #1,689 |
| 1937 | — | — | 10 | #2,336 |
| 1936 | — | — | 19 | #1,543 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,129 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,660 |
| 1933 | — | — | 20 | #1,540 |
| 1932 | — | — | 22 | #1,511 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,477 |
| 1930 | — | — | 19 | #1,696 |
| 1929 | — | — | 12 | #2,319 |
| 1928 | — | — | 17 | #1,904 |
| 1927 | — | — | 20 | #1,748 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,723 |
| 1925 | — | — | 19 | #1,812 |
| 1924 | — | — | 14 | #2,233 |
| 1923 | — | — | 35 | #1,213 |
| 1922 | — | — | 30 | #1,335 |
| 1921 | — | — | 31 | #1,330 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,594 |
| 1919 | — | — | 24 | #1,484 |
| 1918 | — | — | 23 | #1,541 |
| 1917 | — | — | 31 | #1,223 |
| 1916 | — | — | 29 | #1,242 |
| 1915 | — | — | 23 | #1,414 |
| 1914 | — | — | 19 | #1,390 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,682 |
| 1912 | — | — | 18 | #1,096 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,544 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,318 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,454 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,353 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,116 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,006 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #969 |
| 1898 | — | — | 6 | #1,004 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,109 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,085 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #974 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,005 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #823 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #950 |
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).