# Amen (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/amen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Arabic |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,938 |
| US rank (2010) | 15,201 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 159,311 people |
| Change since 2000 | +14% (1,700 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Multiple origins, including a respelling of German Ammann or a variant of Amin from Arabic أَمِين (ʔamīn).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Amen in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 5.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 4.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Amen in the United States.

## People named Amen

- Daniel Amen, American psychiatrist and self-help author (b. 1954)

## Similar surnames

Amin, Aman, Amann, Ammon, Amon, Amini, Ameen, Auman, Ammann, Annan, Anyanwu.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.