Amun
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- AH-mun
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Amun is a name, meaning “the hidden one”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Amun mean?
Ancient Egyptian, name of the god Amun
“the hidden one”
Amun was the great god of Thebes, later merged with Ra as Amun-Ra; his name survives in Tutankhamun.
Is Amun a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Amun has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US.
How popular is Amun in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2004, with 8 boys.
Amun in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1 | #6,218 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 8 | #1,983 |
| 2003 | 3 | #3,593 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,326 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,237 |
| 1999 | 6 | #1,941 |
| 1998 | 3 | #3,021 |
How popular is Amun in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Amun, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had fewer boys named Amun than any year since 2020.
Half of all the boys named Amun in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 135 boys in the US were given Amun or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,244, up from #8,239 for this spelling alone.
Amun in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 12 | #6,892 |
| 2022 | 18 | #5,211 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,401 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,061 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,102 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,129 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
Names like Amun
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zayan, Azai, Musa, Zahir, Azaiah, Zamir, Ahmir, Azir, Azaan, Khaza, Zayd, Ayaan
Other spellings of Amun
Names related to Amun
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Amun: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/amun, updated 20 October 2026.