Amara
#98 for girls in 2025, 2,630 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 2,630 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 28,982since 1961
Amara over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #98 | 2,630 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #121 | 2,296 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #123 | 2,282 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #141 | 2,049 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #142 | 1,924 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #142 | 1,920 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #140 | 1,998 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #189 | 1,588 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #206 | 1,500 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #301 | 1,085 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #459 | 691 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #511 | 607 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #578 | 497 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #571 | 514 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #587 | 491 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #654 | 447 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #586 | 516 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #576 | 535 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #577 | 522 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #573 | 511 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #571 | 501 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #607 | 456 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #652 | 406 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #790 | 297 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #870 | 263 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #796 | 287 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #1,033 | 197 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,078 | 180 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #1,110 | 169 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,215 | 146 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #1,229 | 139 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,400 | 115 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,518 | 103 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #1,422 | 114 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,463 | 108 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,253 | 131 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,750 | 77 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,863 | 66 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #1,748 | 68 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,809 | 62 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,135 | 46 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,492 | 38 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,488 | 38 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,556 | 29 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amara! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Amara
- 23 spots since 2024 (#121 → #98)
- 44 spots since 2020 (#142 → #98)
- 361 spots since 2015 (#459 → #98)
- Biggest jump: 237 spots in 2000 (#1,033 → #796)
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2001 (#796 → #870)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2025 at #98 (2,630 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 2025
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 611 girls born in 2025 were named Amara (0.16%)
- 45.2% of all girls named Amara (13,101) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30 | #4,418 (1969) | #5,544 |
| 1970s | 214 | #2,556 (1974) | #3,375 |
| 1980s | 523 | #1,748 (1987) | #2,156 |
| 1990s | 1,402 | #1,033 (1999) | #1,272 |
| 2000s | 4,294 | #571 (2005) | #660 |
| 2010s | 9,418 | #140 (2019) | #420 |
| 2020s | 13,101 | #98 (2025) | #128 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amara in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 611 of them was named Amara, which outranked 99.4% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 189,786 of them was named Amara, which outranked 40.8% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
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- #8,243Amara9
- #8,243Aadam9
- #8,243Aadhav9
- #8,243Aadit9
- #8,910Aaden8
- #8,910Aarnik8
- #8,910Aaro8
Tied with 666 names at #8,243; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.