Ahmani
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- ah-MAH-nee
- Origin
- Swahili
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Ahmani is a name of Swahili origin, meaning “peace”. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
What does Ahmani mean?
Swahili: variant spelling of Amani
“peace”
A respelling of Amani, the Swahili word for 'peace', which Swahili borrowed from Arabic.
Is Ahmani a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Ahmani has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls and 7 boys in the US.
How popular is Ahmani in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,916th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20 about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 2% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Ahmani, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2009, with 31 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993. 7 boys were also named Ahmani in 2025 (9,710th for boys).
2025 had more girls named Ahmani than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Ahmani in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2019, 73% of the babies named Ahmani in the US were girls.
Ahmani in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 16 | #6,979 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,304 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,834 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,859 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,676 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,747 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,232 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,240 |
| 2004 | 12 | #8,711 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,050 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,478 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,329 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,127 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
Names like Ahmani
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Zaniyah, Kaliyah, Hadassah, Amira, Aliya, Jaliyah, Alaya, Amaya, Aziyah, Anahi, Safa
Names related to Ahmani
More Swahili names
Zuri, Imani, Malaika, Emani, Jabari, Zhuri, Imara, Maisha, Asante, Imaani, Malaikah, Taraji, Xuri, Zuriyah, Johari, Simba
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ahmani: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ahmani, updated 20 October 2026.