Amare

#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
Given to boys 94.1% of the time

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Peak · boys
2011 · 639 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
6,150
since 1997

Amare over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202009peak #4,957, 2012peak #427, 2011girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#14,9425#2,33259
2024#9,55610#2,07872
2023#8,48612#1,75493
2022#9,05611#1,574112
2021#10,2929#1,170168
2020#11,0908#1,172164
2019#9,73610#1,177164
2018#9,15111#1,036196
2017#7,44215#1,016199
2016#6,40119#985207
2015#6,03621#831270
2014#8,96612#847264
2013#7,03117#598423
2012#4,95728#498534
2011#5,20726#427639
2010#5,41425#509505
2009#6,81119#657377
2008#6,35021#678357
2007#5,89523#645376
2006#6,84018#789262
2005#5,60022#631347
2004#12,7617#1,159135
2003#6,57617#1,024154
2002#10,2469#3,09529
2001#13,5216#6,44510
2000#5,04014
1999#8,7046
1998#6,8438
1997#13,7245#8,1106
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First appearance
1997

The first year at least five boys were named Amare! It came in at #8,110, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1997–1999, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.

See more about Amare
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 254 spots since 2024 (#2,078#2,332)
  • 1,160 spots since 2020 (#1,172#2,332)
  • 1,501 spots since 2015 (#831#2,332)
  • Biggest jump: 528 spots in 2005 (#1,159#631)
  • Biggest drop: 249 spots in 2014 (#598#847)
Rise & fade · boys
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1997
  • Peaked 2011 at #427 (639 births)
  • Births halved by 2014, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2005–2016
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,972
  • Highest: 1 in 2,972 boys born in 2011 were named Amare (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 28,950 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 55.3% of all boys named Amare (3,401) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
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  • The majority has never changed
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DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s20#6,843 (1998)#7,886
2000s2,061#631 (2005)#2,016
2010s3,401#427 (2011)#792
2020s668#1,170 (2021)#1,680

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Amare in 2009

girls
#6,811
19 births · 1 in 96,690 girls
boys
#657
377 births · 1 in 5,261 boys

Top girls' names in 2009

  1. #1Isabella22,321
  2. #2Emma17,910
  3. #3Olivia17,444
  4. #4Sophia16,951
  5. #5Ava15,877
  6. #6Emily15,366
  7. #7Madison15,257
  8. #8Abigail14,401
  9. #9Chloe11,922
  10. #10Mia11,438
  11. #6,811Amare19

Top boys' names in 2009

  1. #1Jacob21,204
  2. #2Ethan19,858
  3. #3Michael18,964
  4. #4Alexander18,254
  5. #5William17,937
  6. #6Joshua17,671
  7. #7Daniel17,564
  8. #8Jayden17,316
  9. #9Noah17,262
  10. #10Christopher16,368
  11. #657Amare377
More about 2009

girls

1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 96,690 of them was named Amare, which outranked 66.3% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amare
  1. #6,544Zitlali20
  2. #6,544Zori20
  3. #6,544Zyria20
  4. #6,811Amare19
  5. #6,811Abrar19
  6. #6,811Abri19
  7. #6,811Adama19
  8. #7,066Aadhya18
  9. #7,066Abagale18
  10. #7,066Abiageal18

Tied with 254 names at #6,811; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. 4,137Taraji#5,013#876
  2. 2,107Bristol#2,773#666
  3. 836Analia#1,167#331
  4. 773Harlow#1,677#904
  5. 610Maliah#1,405#795
Fallers
  1. 1,450Dayami#754#2,204
  2. 953Mareli#723#1,676
  3. 773Mylie#839#1,612
  4. 517Marely#334#851
  5. 515Hillary#722#1,237

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 5,261 of them was named Amare, which outranked 95.5% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Amare
  1. #654Alessandro379
  2. #654Luciano379
  3. #656Layne378
  4. #657Amare377
  5. #658Lee374
  6. #659Alonso373
  7. #659Rhett373
Biggest movers since 2008
Risers
  1. 951Knox#1,655#704
  2. 510Kellan#1,133#623
  3. 462Jaxen#1,329#867
  4. 422Bentley#936#514
  5. 354Archer#1,037#683
Fallers
  1. 493Yurem#995#1,488
  2. 222Cordell#786#1,008
  3. 212Shamar#926#1,138
  4. 201Trevin#797#998
  5. 198Glenn#865#1,063

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2009