Amal
Amal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 191 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1910.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2021241 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1962
- 4,313people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,958 girls have been named Amal in the United States since 1962, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2021, with 241 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2021, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 29%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 355 boys have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
By decade
In 2021, its biggest year
Amal was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2021 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Ava. See all of 2021.
Names that rose and fell with Amal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Irinapeak 2024
- Margauxpeak 2021
- Nourapeak 2024
- Kairapeak 2019
- Yasminapeak 2024
- Amethystpeak 2022
- Aspenpeak 2022
- Marenpeak 2021
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.