Amani has two related origins. In Swahili, amani means "peace" — borrowed from the Arabic amān (أمان), meaning "safety" or "security." In Arabic, it can also be related to amānī (أماني), meaning "wishes" or "aspirations."
Amani is used across East Africa, the Arab world, and the African diaspora. It is rising in the U.S. and sits in the top 700.
Amani does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amani reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.