In 2025, 195 US girls were named Amarah, making it the 1,186th most common girls’ name of the year, up 155 places from #1,341 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 170 girls named Amarah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,161, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 206. For comparison, it was #2,113 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amarah in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 2,641 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,113 babies named Amarah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,648 US girls were named Amarah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 206. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amarah ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #618 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amara (29,279 babies since 1880), Amira (25,614 babies since 1880), Amirah (10,863 babies since 1880) and Amora (9,416 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ammaarah are summarised on this page.