How popular is the name Amani?

Amani ranks 1,194th among girls' names in US records, with 16,152 births since 1969. Over the past decade it accounts for 4,275.

Is Amani a unisex name?

No. Amani is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

2008, when 542 children were given the name. It has been in use for 56 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Amanie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,194 of girl names

Pronounced EY2 EH2 M EY1 N AY1 (ARPABET)

Amani is a girls' name, and first appears in 1969. It has been given to 16,152 children — the 1,194th most common girls' name on record.

Its use has been broadly flat across the past two decades. Its best single year was 2008, when 542 children were given it.

Amanie is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.

2008Girls: 542Boys: 138

These spellings sound identical to Amani and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Amani?: Amani ranks 1,194th among girls' names in US records, with 16,152 births since 1969. Over the past decade it accounts for 4,275.
Is Amani a unisex name?: No. Amani is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Amani most popular?: 2008, when 542 children were given the name. It has been in use for 56 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Amani spelled?: Amanie. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.