Amos

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Amos: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Amos: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #392 in 2020, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#392highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#1174
1998	#1485
1999	#1281
2000	#1096
2001	#1467
2002	#1128
2003	#1132
2004	#1732
2005	#850
2006	#960
2007	#987
2008	#1048
2009	#944
2010	#774
2011	#976
2012	#927
2013	#910
2014	#730
2015	#702
2016	#681
2017	#719
2018	#619
2019	#663
2020	#544
2021	#584
2022	#524
2023	#525
2024	#737

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #394 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #737 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Amos appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 986 births with the name.

Amos across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Amos's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#524 (2022)	#737 (2024)	29 of 29	986 (1996–2024)	75 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#493 (2006)	#394 (2024)	#829 (2025)	10 of 20	43 (2006–2025)	9 (2024)

Amos by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Amos in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	39	4 of 10	10
2000s	188	10 of 10	19
2010s	430	10 of 10	43
2020sbusiest	329	5 of 10	66

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births fell by 27, from 74 to 47.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Amos appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #392 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Amos's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#737	47	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#525	74	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#524	75	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#584	65	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#544	68	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#663	52	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#619	58	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#719	48	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#681	51	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#702	47	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#730	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#910	32	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#927	32	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#976	28	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#774	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#944	28	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1048	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#987	25	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#960	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#850	27	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1732	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1132	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1128	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1281	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1174	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#394	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#584	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#493	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #392, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 75 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2006, and 24 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kal · #392, 25y
Kyan · #392, 29y
Quinton · #392, 28y
Della · #393, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Forrest · #392, 24y
Kal · #392, 25y
Kyan · #392, 29y
Quinton · #392, 28y

Amos was ranked #392 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Amos and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Amos without appearing here.

Amos moved ahead of

Shannon Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1128 and #3225.
Kim Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1732 and #1596 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #850 and #2754.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1281 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1096 and #2501.
Garry Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1732 and #1732 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #850 and #1851.

Moved ahead of Amos

Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1132 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1732 and #731.
Arlo Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1132 and #1188 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1732 and #875.
Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1174 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1485 and #924.
Alfred Compare
In 2024 they stood at #394 and #430 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #829 and #286.

Moved the opposite way to Amos

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amos went from #1235 to #737 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amos went from #1235 to #737 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amos went from #1235 to #737 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amos went from #1235 to #737 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Amos

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amos went from #1235 to #737 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amos went from #1235 to #737 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amos went from #1235 to #737 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Amos went from #1235 to #737 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #392 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Amos

Amos at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Amos across 2 official records

Amos by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Amos appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Amos at a glance

Amos across 2 official records

Amos by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Amos appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Amos

Amos and the names beside it

Amos moved ahead of

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