Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Amman is a name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 57th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: city, Jordan.
rarermore common
JOJordan1 in 30◐
BDBangladesh1 in 194
PKPakistan1 in 202
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Locally spelled Amirin US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Amarin IN India, SY Syria, DZ Algeria, Aminin BD Bangladesh, EG Egypt, MA Morocco and Амирin KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
city, Jordan
Sources 1
Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
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Languages●
Arabic220K37%
English1.4K1%
Hindi3801%
Hebrew1681%
Spanish1131%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Arabic
220,465
37%
English
1,391
1%
Hindi
380
1%
Hebrew
168
1%
Spanish
113
1%
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other names spelled this way◐
Amman is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
Hindi given name2.5K records spelled Amman4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India
Also written Ammañ
a separate name477 records spelled Amman3 spellings in the group
Also written Ammān̲, Amman̲
Bangla surname246 records spelled Amman6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Bangladesh
Also written Ammann, আম্মান
Thai given name122 records spelled Amman39 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Thailand, India, United States, Switzerland
Languages: Thai, Lao
Also written อัมมาน, Ammani, อ่ำมาน, อิ่มมั่น, Ammann
Akan given name75 records spelled Amman135 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Ghana, United States, Brazil, Nigeria
Languages: Akan, English, Portuguese
Also written Ama, Amã, Amá, Ãmä, A'Ma
44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.
Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.
Other recorded senses●
Amman is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, Amman (the capital city of Jordan)
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, alternative form of Amã
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pox, bailiff
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, glavni grad Jordana, 965.000 stan.
as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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Amman in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1990–2010
Year
records
1990
7
1991
8
1998
8
1999
8
2000
5
2001
8
2003
11
2005
12
2006
7
2009
6
2010
7
USSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 11 years between 1990–2010. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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About this data
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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this pageMondonomo, “Amman” — the 57th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.