Amaru
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #2,390 for boys in 2025, 57 births
Given to boys 96.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 984since 1996
Amaru over time
Rank among boys' names. Amaru has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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 | #8,860 | 11 | #2,390 | 57 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #2,387 | 57 |
| 2022 | — | #2,753 | 47 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #2,253 | 62 |
| 2020 | — | #2,264 | 60 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | — | #2,994 | 39 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,123 | 37 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,681 | 29 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,982 | 26 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,138 | 24 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,059 | 37 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,510 | 30 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,831 | 27 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,487 | 16 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,243 | 23 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,001 | 24 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,447 | 28 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,697 | 39 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,119 | 30 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,794 | 22 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,142 | 14 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,588 | 12 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,162 | 17 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,546 | 31 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amaru! It came in at #7,136, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Amaru is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#1,301 · 1 in 10,074
- New York#1,442 · 1 in 12,733
- Florida#1,581 · 1 in 15,460
- California#1,597 · 1 in 18,938
- Texas#2,455 · 1 in 34,225
Best ever in a state: #1,234 in New York, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #1,301 | 5 | 1 in 10,074 |
| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
| Florida | #1,581 | 6 | 1 in 15,460 |
| California | #1,597 | 10 | 1 in 18,938 |
| Texas | #2,455 | 5 | 1 in 34,225 |
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See more about Amaru
- 20 spots since 2024 (#2,370 → #2,390)
- 126 spots since 2020 (#2,264 → #2,390)
- 1,592 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #2,390)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2021 at #2,253 (62 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,217 boys born in 2021 were named Amaru (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,966 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.8% of all boys named Amaru (342) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 79 | #2,546 (1997) | #4,259 |
| 2000s | 235 | #2,697 (2004) | #4,135 |
| 2010s | 328 | #2,694 (2019) | #3,436 |
| 2020s | 342 | #2,253 (2021) | #2,403 |
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.
Amaru in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 328,172 of them was named Amaru, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,425 names at #15,251; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 28,217 of them was named Amaru, which outranked 84.0% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,225Nilan63
- #2,225Nyjah63
- #2,225Raleigh63
- #2,253Amaru62
- #2,253Adriano62
- #2,253Athan62
- #2,253Augustin62
- #2,277Alastair61
- #2,277Aman61
- #2,277Austyn61
Tied with 23 names at #2,253; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.