America
America reached its high-water mark in 2005 at number 427, and has been recorded 13,538 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,733rd. About 12,000 Americas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named America boys named America
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,538
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 427th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,733rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 13,522 / 16
How old the living Americas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,538 babies given the name since 1880, about 12,000 are alive — 89 in every hundred. Roughly 4,600 of them are children and 270 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
la-new America, feminine Latinized form of the Italian first name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). The earliest known use of America for the (South) American continent is on a 1507 map by Martin Waldseemüller; see Naming of the Americas for more.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Americas
- America Ferrera (born 1984)American actress
- America Olivo (born 1978)American actress and singer
People named America with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where America is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, America is most concentrated in Nevada (5.0×), Arizona (4.1×), Texas (3.8×), California (3.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular girls’ names the year America peaked:
Where America lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,170 women called America were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asturias | America | 148 | 0.279 | 397 |
| Coruña, A | America | 120 | 0.203 | 439 |
| Cantabria | America | 58 | 0.189 | 461 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | America | 93 | 0.168 | 626 |
| Palmas, Las | America | 91 | 0.154 | 690 |
| Lugo | America | 22 | 0.131 | 610 |
Listed in 36 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 16 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
America against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.