Amani
Masculine · “peace”
Amani is given to both — 2,890 boys and 13,440 girls since 1880. See Amani as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Amani is Swahili for peace, and the same Arabic root gives an Arabic Amani meaning wishes or aspirations — two related meanings that arrived from the same source by different roads.
How old is the name Amani?
Amani first appears in US birth records in 1970 — 55 years ago. The typical Amani alive today was born around 2010, making them about 15 years old. About 2,900 people named Amani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Amani most popular?
Amani peaked in 2008, reaching #1263 nationally. Today it ranks #1585, 322 places below that high. See the whole 2008 chart.
Where it comes from
From aman to Amani
The story of Amani
Swahili names entered American use in significant numbers from the late 1960s alongside Imani, Jelani and Sanaa. Amani appears in the American registers from the 1970s, is given to both sexes, and rose through the 1990s and 2000s. It is in current use and is also common across East Africa and the Arabic-speaking world.
Meaning
peace; wishes, aspirations
The Swahili amani, 'peace', is a borrowing from the Arabic aman, 'safety' or 'security'. The Arabic amani is a separate word, the plural of umniyah, 'wish' or 'aspiration'. Both descend from Semitic roots about safety and desire, and both are genuine names.
How the name formed
- aman
- amani
- Amani
Related forms: Amani · أماني · Imani
Pronouncing Amani
uh-MAH-nee
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Swahili gives every vowel a full value with no reduction.
Nicknames for Amani
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1970
- Most boys named
- 2024154 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1263reached in 2008
- Change vs 2024
- −30.5%107 in 2025, from 154
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Amani in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Amani in Swahili — same name
- أماني in Arabic — transliteration
- Imani in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Amanis among us
people named Amani are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 15,963 born in 2025 was named Amani
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Stevenson test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Amani's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Stevenson climbed just as high around 1953, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Stevenson's path sketches the road Amani is walking now.
Amani sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Amani is headed
Amani looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 39% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Amani beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Amani in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The peace meaning is transparent, undisputed and about as good as meanings get.
- It is genuine in both Swahili and Arabic, which gives it real reach.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- It is thoroughly unisex and does not signal sex on paper.
- In Arabic it is more often feminine than masculine.
- Imani and Amari are close enough to cause confusion.
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Frequently asked
- How many Amanis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,900 people named Amani are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Amani in 2025?
- Amani ranks #1585 among US boy names in 2025, with 107 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Amani?
- About 1 in every 15,963 US boys born in 2025 was named Amani — 107 in all.
- Will my child share the name Amani with classmates?
- Amani will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Amani
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