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Ameera vs America

American parents have registered 13,538 Americas since 1880, against 3,447 Ameeras. But in 2025 it was Ameera that was commoner, 161 babies to 117.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ameera America

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 146 years in which either name was published, America for 139 years and Ameera for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Ameera America
Total US births 3,44713,538
Most in one year 178719
Babies in 2025 161117
Estimated living today 3,40012,000
Median age today 1020
Peak year 20242005
Best rank 1,296th girls427th girls
Rank in 2025 1,367th1,733rd
First recorded 19721880
Girls / boys 3,447 / 013,522 / 16

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 Americas alive today are over 20; half the Ameeras are over 10. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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