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Baby name
Amos
Boy
Origin of the name
Amos is the name of a prophet of the Bible, a shepherd of Tekoa.
Classic name
36,536births since 1880
1920sgeneration
No. 237rank at its peak, in 1922
Where babies named Amos are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Amos is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Amos is most common in Mississippi (3.8 times), Alabama (2.9) and Georgia (2.3), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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