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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 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 146,115 of them was named Amaru, which outranked 48.8% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #8,362Zissel12
- #8,362Zoella12
- #8,362Zyomi12
- #8,860Amaru11
- #8,860Aadiya11
- #8,860Aadvika11
- #8,860Aara11
- #9,457Aanaya10
- #9,457Aarza10
- #9,457Aashi10
Tied with 596 names at #8,860; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 29,966 of them was named Amaru, which outranked 82.8% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #2,363Yaziel58
- #2,363Yossi58
- #2,363Zacchaeus58
- #2,390Amaru57
- #2,390Ameen57
- #2,390Arlan57
- #2,390Asim57
- #2,421Amelio56
- #2,421Bram56
- #2,421Darnell56
Tied with 30 names at #2,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.