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America vs Amerie

American parents have registered 13,538 Americas since 1880, against 2,648 Ameries. America is still ahead, with 117 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

America Amerie

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 145 years and Amerie for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  America Amerie
Total US births 13,5382,648
Most in one year 719174
Babies in 2025 11760
Estimated living today 12,0002,600
Median age today 2013
Peak year 20052008
Best rank 427th girls1,380th girls
Rank in 2025 1,733rd2,822nd
First recorded 18802002
Girls / boys 13,522 / 162,648 / 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 Americas alive today are over 20; half the Ameries are over 13. That is 7 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: America and Amerie.