The American Bantam Association is a poultry fancy association for breeders of bantam poultry.

It publishes the Bantam Standard, with detailed descriptions of all the bantam breeds and varieties that it recognizes;[2]: 6  in most – but not all – cases, these are the same as those recognised by the American Poultry Association.

[2]: 23  It also publishes a quarterly magazine and annual yearbook,[citation needed] hosts poultry shows and provides judges for them, and provides information on bantam breeds.

[1] It sanctions or has sanctioned a number of poultry shows across the United States held by local groups, such as the Poultry and Rare Bird Show at the Los Angeles County Fair[3] and the Ohio National.

The first president of the association was Charles E. Rockenstyie, who died in 1944.