How many Ammas are there in the world?

No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Amma are estimated to be alive in the US today.

How do you spell Amma?

Amma is one of 2 recorded spellings. Ama is the more common one — 14 births in 2025 against 10 for Amma.

How popular is the name Amma in 2025?

Amma ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.

How rare is the name Amma?

About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Amma — 10 in all.

Will my child share the name Amma with classmates?

Amma will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Amma

Feminine · “Akan”

#9457 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year

rare10 girls in 2025

Akan children are named for the day they were born, automatically. Kofi is Friday, Kwame Saturday, Kwesi Sunday. Ama and Amma are the Saturday name for a girl. The day-name is given at birth and every Akan person has one.

How old is the name Amma?

Amma first appears in US birth records in 1886 — 139 years ago. The typical Amma alive today was born around 1977, making them about 48 years old. About 300 people named Amma are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Amma most popular?

Amma peaked in 1887, reaching #937 nationally. Today it ranks #9457, 8,520 places below that high. See the whole 1887 chart.

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Where it comes from

From Ama to Amma

The story of Amma

The Akan naming system assigns a name from the day of the week on which a child is born, with a male and a female form for each day: Kwasi and Akosua for Sunday, Kwadwo and Adwoa for Monday, Kwabena and Abenaa for Tuesday, Kwaku and Akua for Wednesday, Yaw and Yaa for Thursday, Kofi and Afua for Friday, Kwame and Ama for Saturday. Every Akan person has one, in addition to any other names, and it is used constantly. Kofi Annan's first name records a Friday birth; Kwame Nkrumah's a Saturday one. The system carried into the Americas with the slave trade, which is why names of this shape appear in colonial records in the Caribbean and the American South, and it is a rare case where a naming practice survived that crossing in a documented form.

Meaningscholars disagree

Akan, born on Saturday

Amma is the Akan day-name for a girl born on Saturday, given automatically at birth across Ghana and Ivory Coast. It is separately the word for mother in Tamil, Malayalam and several other Indian languages, and a short form of Germanic names in Am-. The 1887 American peak is too early for the Akan source in any quantity.

How the name formed

Ama
Amma

Related forms: Ama · Amma

Pronouncing Amma

AH-mah

Two syllables, stress on the first. Akan holds the doubled m slightly longer. The Indian word for mother is said the same way.

Nicknames for Amma

Moderate

AmA single-syllable clip

AmmieA diminutive built with the -ie suffix

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: 1886
Most girls named: 201914 — the highest on record
Peak rank: #937reached in 1887
Change vs 2023: +42.9%10 in 2025, from 7

Amma sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 2019, with 14 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Amma in other languages

The same name elsewhere

Ama in Akan — spelling variant
Amma in Tamil — related form

Ammas among us

300

people named Amma are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 160,727 born in 2025 was named Amma

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Amma

#9457
Amma on the 2025 chart: #936
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Amma went to 10 girls in 2025, but Ama is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 24, which makes it the 936th most-given girls’ name of the year — 8,521 places above the chart.

Ama14
Amma10

About 1 girl in 66,969 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 160,727 for Amma itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

What happens to a name after it peaks

Fashion outlook

Amma 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.

40%chance Amma will feel dated by 2040

Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Amma beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Amma in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Ammathis name10#9457Leta10#9457Inga10#9457Delphia10#9457Cammie10#9457

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths

Four letters and two syllables, easy in several languages.
The vowels are open and clear.
It exists as a real name in more than one tradition.

What to consider

Several unrelated sources produce the same spelling.
It means mother in several Indian languages.
The 1887 peak places it well over a century ago.

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Frequently asked

How many Ammas are there in the world?: No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 300 people named Amma are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Amma?: Amma is one of 2 recorded spellings. Ama is the more common one — 14 births in 2025 against 10 for Amma.
How popular is the name Amma in 2025?: Amma ranks #9457 among US girl names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Amma?: About 1 in every 160,727 US girls born in 2025 was named Amma — 10 in all.
Will my child share the name Amma with classmates?: Amma will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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