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Amani vs Amanti

American parents have registered 16,330 Amanis since 1880, against 81 Amantis. Amani is still ahead, with 526 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Amani against Amanti, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Amani Amanti

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

Amani has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2005, when Amani had 518 and Amanti had 24.

Side by side

  Amani Amanti
Total US births 16,33081
Most in one year 66726
Babies in 2025 526under 5
Estimated living today 16,00080
Median age today 1520
Peak year 20082004
Best rank 585th girls4,421st boys
Rank in 2025 678thunranked
First recorded 19692004
Girls / boys 13,440 / 2,89029 / 52

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 Amantis alive today are over 20; half the Amanis are over 15. That is 5 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: Amani and Amanti.