Bama · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Bama.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1880

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 62 recorded years as a table

Bama, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1880	66
1881	54
1882	56
1883	71
1884	70
1885	45
1887	34
1888	50
1889	39
1890	42
1891	32
1892	33
1893	33
1894	63
1895	26
1897	43
1898	23
1899	43
1900	20
1901	33
1902	53
1903	38
1904	33
1905	38
1906	17
1907	19
1908	15
1909	26
1910	28
1911	17
1912	20
1913	16
1914	7
1915	12
1916	11
1917	6
1918	11
1919	12
1920	4
1921	7
1922	9
1923	9
1924	8
1925	7
1926	8
1927	6
1928	6
1929	7
1930	7
1931	10
1932	10
1935	5
1938	7
1941	6
1942	4
1946	3
1948	4
1949	3
1951	4
1955	3
1959	2
1982	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Bama isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Bama

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1982: 5
Rank in 1982: #10,517
How rare: 1 in 338,665 girls
Since 1880: 498

Bama was last recorded in 1982. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1883, at 71 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Bama doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.