Meaning not yet researched.
Amara: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,630 in 2025. Its best rank was #98 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.6% of babies named Amara in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#98 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Amara: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,630 girls in 2025. Peak: #98 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 2,630 (2025).
In 2025, 2,630 US girls were named Amara, making it the 98th most common girls’ name of the year, up 23 places from #121 in 2024. That is 334 more than the 2,296 girls named Amara in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #98, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,630. For comparison, it was #459 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amara in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 5 babies. In all, 29,279 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 13,171 babies named Amara.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 19,272 US girls were named Amara; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,630. In 2025 that was about 1 in 611 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amara ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #31 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 21 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Amari (53,282 babies since 1880), Amora (9,416 babies since 1880), Amaria (2,917 babies since 1880) and Amira (25,614 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Amera, Amayra and Aamira are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Amera (1,123), Amayra (494), Aamira (491), Amirra (475), Amarra (465), Amerah (444), Ameira (296), Amaura (247), Amiera (240), Ammara (192), Ahmira (188), Amarrah (180), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Amara in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 26 | #31 | — |
| District of Columbia | 9 | #74 | — |
| Oregon | 40 | #74 | #321 |
| Vermont | 5 | #75 | — |
| Florida | 208 | #76 | #362 |
| Hawaii | 9 | #78 | — |
| Colorado | 61 | #79 | #363 |
| Montana | 11 | #81 | — |
| Arizona | 68 | #82 | #574 |
| West Virginia | 17 | #83 | — |
| Indiana | 70 | #87 | #327 |
| Utah | 48 | #88 | #455 |
| Oklahoma | 38 | #91 | #577 |
| California | 327 | #92 | #494 |
| Nevada | 22 | #92 | #543 |
| Texas | 299 | #92 | #647 |
| Kentucky | 44 | #93 | #394 |
| Illinois | 90 | #95 | #575 |
| Georgia | 90 | #95 | #487 |
| Washington | 64 | #96 | #410 |
| New Hampshire | 12 | #96 | — |
| Connecticut | 27 | #102 | #452 |
| Arkansas | 26 | #106 | #583 |
| Kansas | 28 | #112 | — |
| Missouri | 52 | #113 | #468 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #115 | #463 |
| Ohio | 89 | #119 | #336 |
| Maryland | 37 | #120 | #418 |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | #120 | #411 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | #122 | — |
| Michigan | 67 | #122 | #340 |
| New York | 125 | #124 | #408 |
| Mississippi | 19 | #124 | — |
| Massachusetts | 43 | #124 | #398 |
| New Jersey | 60 | #129 | #476 |
| Minnesota | 39 | #138 | #324 |
| North Carolina | 71 | #139 | #569 |
| South Dakota | 8 | #139 | #113 |
| Alaska | 5 | #140 | #184 |
| Wisconsin | 37 | #142 | #353 |
| Tennessee | 51 | #145 | #551 |
| Louisiana | 27 | #152 | #448 |
| Alabama | 28 | #153 | — |
| Maine | 7 | #156 | — |
| Iowa | 20 | #159 | #273 |
| Nebraska | 13 | #169 | #417 |
| Delaware | 5 | #172 | — |
| Virginia | 41 | #200 | #549 |
| Idaho | 9 | #250 | #285 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,630 | #98 | 9 | #8,286 |
| 2024 | 2,296 | #121 | 12 | #6,855 |
| 2023 | 2,282 | #123 | 17 | #5,480 |
| 2022 | 2,049 | #141 | 13 | #6,496 |
| 2021 | 1,924 | #142 | 11 | #7,122 |
| 2020 | 1,920 | #142 | 8 | #8,780 |
| 2019 | 1,998 | #140 | 11 | #7,202 |
| 2018 | 1,588 | #189 | 15 | #5,783 |
| 2017 | 1,500 | #206 | 10 | #7,579 |
| 2016 | 1,085 | #301 | 11 | #7,172 |
| 2015 | 691 | #459 | 15 | #5,759 |
| 2014 | 607 | #511 | 10 | #7,579 |
| 2013 | 497 | #578 | 11 | #7,052 |
| 2012 | 514 | #571 | 7 | #9,761 |
| 2011 | 491 | #587 | 8 | #8,800 |
| 2010 | 447 | #654 | 7 | #9,735 |
| 2009 | 516 | #586 | 6 | #11,064 |
| 2008 | 535 | #576 | 8 | #9,048 |
| 2007 | 522 | #577 | 13 | #6,284 |
| 2006 | 511 | #573 | 6 | #10,741 |
| 2005 | 501 | #571 | 11 | #6,657 |
| 2004 | 456 | #607 | 9 | #7,560 |
| 2003 | 406 | #652 | 7 | #8,699 |
| 2002 | 297 | #790 | 12 | #5,744 |
| 2001 | 263 | #870 | 8 | #7,557 |
| 2000 | 287 | #797 | 7 | #8,236 |
| 1999 | 197 | #1,033 | 6 | #8,751 |
| 1998 | 180 | #1,078 | 11 | #5,484 |
| 1997 | 169 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1996 | 146 | #1,215 | 5 | #9,068 |
| 1995 | 139 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1994 | 115 | #1,400 | — | — |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,518 | 6 | #7,673 |
| 1992 | 114 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,465 | — | — |
| 1990 | 131 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,864 | 7 | #5,774 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,493 | — | — |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,687 | — | — |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,291 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,812 | — | — |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,160 | — | — |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,548 | — | — |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,585 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,430 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,158 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,056 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,592 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).