Amari

Where Amari comes from

The surname is of multiple origins, including: * A variant of Amaro, from Italian Amaro. * A variant of Amar, from Arabic عَمَّار (ʕammār). See also Umari, Umar, Omar, and Amar. * A Japanese surname ultimately deriving from Japanese 余り (amari, “remainder, surplus”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Amari
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #4,634 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Amari Cooper born
    American football player
  3. 2004
    Amari Bailey born
    American basketball player
  4. 2005
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2023
    Peak, #151
    2,422 babies named Amari — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male or female given name of modern usage.
Namesakes
  • Amari Cooper · American football player, born 1994
  • Amari Bailey · American basketball player, born 2004
  • Amari Williams · British basketball player, born 2002
  • Amari Spievey · American football player, born 1988
  • Amari Morgan-Smith · English association football player, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.