Amen is the Hebrew word of affirmation spoken at the end of prayers and means "so be it" or "truly"; it is also the name of Amun, the ancient Egyptian god of Thebes, which some parents have in mind. As a given name it belongs to the group of faith words like Messiah and Zion that American parents began using in the 2000s. Amen has stayed between numbers 1870 and 2400 for a decade, with its best rank of number 1871 in 2015, and ranks number 2036 in 2025.