Ames
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#1,754
up +259 places
2025 births
92
up +16 births
All-time births
1,855
5% of them in 2025
More common than
92%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2023
- 93 births
- Best rank
- #1,695
- in 2020
- First recorded
- 1913
- #2,282 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1993
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 98 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 202393#1,755Peak
- 202092#1,695
- 202592#1,754
- 202189#1,785
- 201687#1,763
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,695 in 2020 · peak births 93 in 2023
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
1,855 boys · 10 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Ames has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.