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Ahmani vs Ahmya

American parents have registered 635 Ahmanis since 1880, against 613 Ahmyas. Ahmani is still ahead, with 27 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ahmani against Ahmya, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ahmani Ahmya

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, Ahmani for 18 years and Ahmya for 15 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Ahmani Ahmya
Total US births 635613
Most in one year 3840
Babies in 2025 27under 5
Estimated living today 630610
Median age today 1416
Peak year 20092013
Best rank 4,677th girls3,778th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917thunranked
First recorded 19931998
Girls / boys 533 / 102613 / 0

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 Ahmyas alive today are over 16; half the Ahmanis are over 14. That is 2 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 Ahmya.