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Ahmani vs Ahmari

American parents have registered 1,857 Ahmaris since 1880, against 635 Ahmanis. Ahmari is still ahead, with 67 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ahmani against Ahmari, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ahmani Ahmari

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 33 years in which either name was published, Ahmari for 30 years and Ahmani for 3 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Ahmani Ahmari
Total US births 6351,857
Most in one year 3898
Babies in 2025 2767
Estimated living today 6301,800
Median age today 1411
Peak year 20092022
Best rank 4,677th girls1,907th boys
Rank in 2025 5,917th2,304th
First recorded 19931995
Girls / boys 533 / 102468 / 1,389

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ahmanis alive today are over 14; half the Ahmaris are over 11. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ahmani and Ahmari.