Meaning not yet researched.
Amare: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #427 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #427 in 2011; #2,333 in 2025. About 92% of babies named Amare in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,333 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #427.
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Amare: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 boys in 2025. Peak: #427 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 639 (2011).
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Amare, making it the 2,333rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 254 places from #2,079 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 72 boys named Amare in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #427, reached in 2011. That year also had the most boys given the name: 639. For comparison, it was #831 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amare in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 11 babies. In all, 6,536 US babies have been given the name, 5.9% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,585 babies named Amare.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,434 US boys were named Amare; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 207. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,950 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amare ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,586 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amir (56,257 babies since 1880), Amar (5,334 babies since 1880), Ammar (3,083 babies since 1880) and Amor (2,958 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ahmere, Amoure and Amarre are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Ahmere (234), Amoure (58), Amarre (44), Ahmare (23), Amaure (18).
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 Amare in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,586 | #510 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,076 | 59 | #2,333 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,600 | 72 | #2,079 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,512 | 93 | #1,754 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,101 | 112 | #1,575 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,342 | 168 | #1,171 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,159 | 164 | #1,173 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,780 | 164 | #1,177 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,191 | 196 | #1,036 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,473 | 199 | #1,016 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,422 | 207 | #985 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,043 | 270 | #831 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,013 | 264 | #847 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,057 | 423 | #598 |
| 2012 | 28 | #4,975 | 534 | #498 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,220 | 639 | #427 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,427 | 505 | #509 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,825 | 377 | #657 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,366 | 357 | #678 |
| 2007 | 23 | #5,907 | 376 | #646 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,871 | 262 | #789 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,608 | 347 | #631 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,843 | 135 | #1,160 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,598 | 154 | #1,024 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,311 | 29 | #3,100 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,608 | 10 | #6,466 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,054 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #8,752 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #6,870 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,844 | 6 | #8,170 |
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).