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Amani vs Amareon

American parents have registered 16,330 Amanis since 1880, against 101 Amareons. Amani is still ahead, with 526 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Amani Amareon

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 2003, when Amani had 443 and Amareon had 25.

Side by side

  Amani Amareon
Total US births 16,330101
Most in one year 66725
Babies in 2025 5265
Estimated living today 16,000100
Median age today 1520
Peak year 20082003
Best rank 585th girls3,528th boys
Rank in 2025 678th12,008th
First recorded 19692002
Girls / boys 13,440 / 2,8900 / 101

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 Amareons 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 Amareon.