Amari
#380 for girls in 2025, 804 births · #185 for boys in 2025, 2,000 births
Given to boys 60.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 2,422 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 31,994since 1974
Amari over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #380 | 804 | #185 | 2,000 |
| 2024 | #296 | 1,070 | #172 | 2,164 |
| 2023 | #306 | 1,005 | #151 | 2,422 |
| 2022 | #319 | 1,009 | #174 | 2,179 |
| 2021 | #333 | 985 | #200 | 1,920 |
| 2020 | #329 | 940 | #217 | 1,742 |
| 2019 | #310 | 1,042 | #239 | 1,596 |
| 2018 | #380 | 818 | #269 | 1,323 |
| 2017 | #425 | 749 | #275 | 1,323 |
| 2016 | #459 | 700 | #269 | 1,363 |
| 2015 | #470 | 680 | #267 | 1,366 |
| 2014 | #524 | 589 | #338 | 985 |
| 2013 | #512 | 581 | #337 | 955 |
| 2012 | #486 | 633 | #308 | 1,075 |
| 2011 | #513 | 572 | #306 | 1,056 |
| 2010 | #462 | 662 | #318 | 1,005 |
| 2009 | #487 | 632 | #299 | 1,088 |
| 2008 | #388 | 830 | #343 | 951 |
| 2007 | #480 | 673 | #360 | 879 |
| 2006 | #518 | 585 | #419 | 684 |
| 2005 | #483 | 633 | #410 | 666 |
| 2004 | #441 | 696 | #407 | 638 |
| 2003 | #390 | 784 | #419 | 613 |
| 2002 | #430 | 677 | #472 | 505 |
| 2001 | #464 | 599 | #631 | 300 |
| 2000 | #512 | 519 | #682 | 260 |
| 1999 | #601 | 405 | #715 | 230 |
| 1998 | #513 | 495 | #679 | 251 |
| 1997 | #674 | 322 | #914 | 149 |
| 1996 | #890 | 222 | #1,292 | 85 |
| 1995 | #1,730 | 84 | #1,914 | 44 |
| 1994 | #1,952 | 72 | #1,927 | 43 |
| 1993 | #2,489 | 50 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #2,612 | 47 | #3,105 | 21 |
| 1991 | #2,660 | 45 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #3,915 | 12 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #4,052 | 10 |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
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| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #5,525 | 6 |
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| 1974 | — | #4,634 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amari! It came in at #4,634, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Amari is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#72 · 1 in 233
- Mississippi#98 · 1 in 356
- Rhode Island#100 · 1 in 307
- Maryland#100 · 1 in 380
- Alabama#118 · 1 in 435
Best ever in a state: #28 in Delaware, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #72 | 15 | 1 in 233 |
| Mississippi | #98 | 34 | 1 in 356 |
| Maryland | #100 | 66 | 1 in 380 |
| Rhode Island | #100 | 11 | 1 in 307 |
| Alabama | #118 | 50 | 1 in 435 |
| Pennsylvania | #127 | 106 | 1 in 509 |
| Georgia | #131 | 92 | 1 in 546 |
| New Jersey | #133 | 72 | 1 in 546 |
| Virginia | #136 | 71 | 1 in 545 |
| South Carolina | #139 | 38 | 1 in 526 |
| Delaware | #148 | 7 | 1 in 442 |
| Nevada | #149 | 22 | 1 in 539 |
| New York | #157 | 126 | 1 in 696 |
| Tennessee | #170 | 50 | 1 in 681 |
| Florida | #178 | 121 | 1 in 746 |
| Michigan | #190 | 54 | 1 in 791 |
| North Carolina | #196 | 61 | 1 in 802 |
| Illinois | #213 | 62 | 1 in 881 |
| Massachusetts | #227 | 26 | 1 in 1,033 |
| West Virginia | #228 | 9 | 1 in 774 |
| Connecticut | #234 | 14 | 1 in 936 |
| Indiana | #238 | 34 | 1 in 955 |
| Louisiana | #240 | 24 | 1 in 899 |
| Texas | #240 | 172 | 1 in 984 |
| Wisconsin | #269 | 22 | 1 in 1,088 |
| Colorado | #271 | 24 | 1 in 1,046 |
| Washington | #289 | 26 | 1 in 1,276 |
| Arizona | #290 | 28 | 1 in 1,142 |
| California | #299 | 134 | 1 in 1,415 |
| Ohio | #301 | 39 | 1 in 1,397 |
| Kentucky | #328 | 14 | 1 in 1,402 |
| Nebraska | #331 | 7 | 1 in 1,253 |
| Arkansas | #334 | 10 | 1 in 1,276 |
| Missouri | #349 | 18 | 1 in 1,583 |
| Oklahoma | #370 | 12 | 1 in 1,479 |
| New Mexico | #379 | 5 | 1 in 1,456 |
| Iowa | #402 | 8 | 1 in 1,697 |
| Minnesota | #437 | 12 | 1 in 2,083 |
| Kansas | #447 | 7 | 1 in 1,960 |
| Oregon | #474 | 7 | 1 in 2,211 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amari
- 13 spots since 2024 (#172 → #185)
- 32 spots since 2020 (#217 → #185)
- 82 spots since 2015 (#267 → #185)
- Biggest jump: 378 spots in 1997 (#1,292 → #914)
- Biggest drop: 36 spots in 1999 (#679 → #715)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2023 at #151 (2,422 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 29 yrs · run 1997–2025
- Highest: 1 in 706 boys born in 2023 were named Amari (0.14%)
- Latest: 1 in 854 boys born in 2025 (0.12%)
- 38.8% of all boys named Amari (12,427) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2004, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #4,634 (1974) | #5,049 |
| 1980s | 48 | #3,915 (1988) | #5,087 |
| 1990s | 877 | #679 (1998) | #2,088 |
| 2000s | 6,584 | #299 (2009) | #444 |
| 2010s | 12,047 | #239 (2019) | #293 |
| 2020s | 12,427 | #151 (2023) | #183 |
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.
Amari in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 1,720 of them was named Amari, which outranked 98.1% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 991 of them was named Amari, which outranked 98.5% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.