Meaning not yet researched.
Amari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,000 in 2025. Its best rank was #151 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #151 in 2023; #185 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Amari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#185 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #151.
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Amari: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,000 boys in 2025. Peak: #151 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 2,422 (2023).
In 2025, 2,000 US boys were named Amari, making it the 185th most common boys’ name of the year, down 13 places from #172 in 2024. That is 164 fewer than the 2,164 boys named Amari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #151, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,422. For comparison, it was #267 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 804 US girls were named Amari, making it the 380th most common girls’ name of the year, down 84 places from #296 in 2024. That is 266 fewer than the 1,070 girls named Amari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #296, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,070. For comparison, it was #470 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amari in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 53,282 US babies have been given the name, 40% of them girls and 60% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 19,073 babies named Amari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 18,032 US boys were named Amari; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 2,422. In 2025 that was about 1 in 854 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amari ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #39 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Amara (29,279 babies since 1880), Amaris (10,168 babies since 1880), Amar (5,334 babies since 1880) and Amarie (2,968 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ameria, Amarilis and Amarri are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Ameria (769), Amarilis (747), Amarri (739), Amery (736), Amariya (613), Amorie (435), Ameri (362), Amiria (316), Aamari (305), Amyri (260), Amyria (236), Amaro (209), 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 Amari 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 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware | 19 | #39 | #115 |
| District of Columbia | 13 | #60 | #122 |
| Maryland | 58 | #97 | #143 |
| Mississippi | 29 | #97 | #91 |
| Virginia | 72 | #117 | #185 |
| Georgia | 98 | #117 | #157 |
| Alabama | 42 | #131 | #96 |
| Connecticut | 26 | #141 | #219 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | #142 | — |
| South Carolina | 39 | #143 | #179 |
| Florida | 150 | #144 | #222 |
| Arkansas | 24 | #151 | #267 |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | #154 | #201 |
| North Carolina | 81 | #158 | #188 |
| Nevada | 19 | #161 | #260 |
| New Jersey | 62 | #162 | #168 |
| Massachusetts | 40 | #166 | #312 |
| Ohio | 80 | #167 | #247 |
| Oregon | 24 | #170 | #378 |
| Indiana | 49 | #172 | #293 |
| Illinois | 68 | #174 | #222 |
| Arizona | 48 | #179 | #299 |
| Louisiana | 28 | #181 | #271 |
| Michigan | 56 | #185 | #228 |
| Tennessee | 50 | #185 | #283 |
| New York | 106 | #188 | #211 |
| Kansas | 20 | #197 | #519 |
| California | 180 | #209 | #388 |
| Colorado | 31 | #210 | #286 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #213 | #351 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #217 | — |
| Wisconsin | 28 | #217 | #328 |
| Texas | 174 | #226 | #410 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #232 | #573 |
| Missouri | 30 | #238 | #391 |
| Iowa | 16 | #247 | #417 |
| West Virginia | 7 | #255 | #292 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #258 | — |
| Minnesota | 22 | #276 | #636 |
| Kentucky | 19 | #282 | #404 |
| Washington | 23 | #321 | #464 |
| Utah | 13 | #351 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #378 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 804 | #380 | 2,000 | #185 |
| 2024 | 1,070 | #296 | 2,164 | #172 |
| 2023 | 1,005 | #306 | 2,422 | #151 |
| 2022 | 1,009 | #320 | 2,179 | #174 |
| 2021 | 985 | #333 | 1,920 | #200 |
| 2020 | 940 | #329 | 1,742 | #217 |
| 2019 | 1,042 | #310 | 1,596 | #239 |
| 2018 | 818 | #380 | 1,323 | #269 |
| 2017 | 749 | #425 | 1,323 | #275 |
| 2016 | 700 | #459 | 1,363 | #269 |
| 2015 | 680 | #470 | 1,366 | #267 |
| 2014 | 589 | #524 | 985 | #338 |
| 2013 | 581 | #512 | 955 | #337 |
| 2012 | 633 | #486 | 1,075 | #308 |
| 2011 | 572 | #513 | 1,056 | #306 |
| 2010 | 662 | #462 | 1,005 | #318 |
| 2009 | 632 | #487 | 1,088 | #299 |
| 2008 | 830 | #388 | 951 | #343 |
| 2007 | 673 | #480 | 879 | #360 |
| 2006 | 585 | #518 | 684 | #419 |
| 2005 | 633 | #484 | 666 | #410 |
| 2004 | 696 | #441 | 638 | #407 |
| 2003 | 784 | #390 | 613 | #419 |
| 2002 | 677 | #431 | 505 | #472 |
| 2001 | 599 | #464 | 300 | #631 |
| 2000 | 519 | #512 | 260 | #682 |
| 1999 | 405 | #601 | 230 | #715 |
| 1998 | 495 | #513 | 251 | #679 |
| 1997 | 322 | #675 | 149 | #914 |
| 1996 | 222 | #890 | 85 | #1,292 |
| 1995 | 84 | #1,731 | 44 | #1,917 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,953 | 43 | #1,927 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,491 | 22 | #3,050 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,612 | 21 | #3,107 |
| 1991 | 45 | #2,660 | 18 | #3,333 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,065 | 14 | #3,979 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,297 | 7 | #6,251 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,133 | 12 | #3,919 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,806 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,152 | 7 | #5,356 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,728 | 10 | #4,057 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,179 | — | — |
| 1981 | — | — | 6 | #5,501 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,444 | 6 | #5,551 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,489 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #4,654 |
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).