Meaning not yet researched.
Amaris: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 360 in 2025. Its best rank was #752 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #752 in 2016; #754 in 2025. About 85% of babies named Amaris in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#754 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #752.
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Amaris: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 360 girls in 2025. Peak: #752 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 379 (2016).
In 2025, 360 US girls were named Amaris, making it the 754th most common girls’ name of the year, up 103 places from #857 in 2024. That is 44 more than the 316 girls named Amaris in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #752, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 379. For comparison, it was #791 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 65 US boys were named Amaris, making it the 2,183rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 53 places from #2,236 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 64 boys named Amaris in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,576, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 112. For comparison, it was #3,515 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amaris in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 10,168 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 7.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,097 babies named Amaris.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,197 US girls were named Amaris; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 379. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,465 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amaris ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #101 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amari (53,282 babies since 1880), Promise (6,838 babies since 1880), Amarie (2,968 babies since 1880) and Amaria (2,917 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ameris, Amarius and Amarys are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ameris (439), Amarius (417), Amarys (221), Amariz (183), Amiris (144), Amarise (112), Amauris (74), Amariss (72), Amarious (70), Amyris (17), Amaurys (15), Amerius (10), 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 Amaris 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 13 | #101 | #189 |
| Texas | 69 | #471 | #501 |
| Maryland | 10 | #512 | #576 |
| California | 62 | #530 | #645 |
| Illinois | 18 | #541 | #806 |
| Oregon | 6 | #551 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #584 | #528 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #620 | #750 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #622 | — |
| Arizona | 10 | #634 | #496 |
| Florida | 26 | #651 | #646 |
| New York | 20 | #791 | #1,077 |
| Colorado | 6 | #799 | #889 |
| Alabama | 5 | #826 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #840 | #992 |
| Washington | 6 | #925 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #938 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,071 | #780 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,140 | #680 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,241 | #1,125 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,281 | #1,165 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,543 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 360 | #754 | 65 | #2,183 |
| 2024 | 316 | #857 | 64 | #2,236 |
| 2023 | 291 | #912 | 95 | #1,735 |
| 2022 | 301 | #910 | 112 | #1,576 |
| 2021 | 285 | #931 | 60 | #2,300 |
| 2020 | 296 | #895 | 55 | #2,393 |
| 2019 | 336 | #813 | 32 | #3,498 |
| 2018 | 315 | #860 | 25 | #4,097 |
| 2017 | 318 | #860 | 20 | #4,751 |
| 2016 | 379 | #752 | 28 | #3,779 |
| 2015 | 356 | #791 | 31 | #3,515 |
| 2014 | 250 | #1,036 | 13 | #6,321 |
| 2013 | 236 | #1,047 | 14 | #5,937 |
| 2012 | 232 | #1,075 | 6 | #10,853 |
| 2011 | 240 | #1,036 | 5 | #12,383 |
| 2010 | 250 | #1,004 | 11 | #7,103 |
| 2009 | 261 | #1,012 | 12 | #6,824 |
| 2008 | 271 | #983 | 12 | #6,782 |
| 2007 | 279 | #964 | 11 | #7,118 |
| 2006 | 290 | #910 | 8 | #8,762 |
| 2005 | 249 | #982 | 8 | #8,333 |
| 2004 | 301 | #824 | 10 | #7,000 |
| 2003 | 233 | #990 | 10 | #6,743 |
| 2002 | 199 | #1,068 | 8 | #7,675 |
| 2001 | 174 | #1,177 | 9 | #6,951 |
| 2000 | 163 | #1,218 | 9 | #6,865 |
| 1999 | 152 | #1,239 | 6 | #8,753 |
| 1998 | 146 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1997 | 170 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1996 | 151 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1995 | 112 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1994 | 140 | #1,236 | — | — |
| 1993 | 145 | #1,194 | 7 | #6,849 |
| 1992 | 135 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1991 | 129 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1990 | 97 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 1989 | 109 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1987 | 91 | #1,433 | — | — |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1985 | 48 | #2,173 | — | — |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1983 | 42 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1981 | 40 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,307 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,056 | — | — |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,371 | — | — |
| 1972 | 15 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,558 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,072 | — | — |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,469 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,039 | — | — |
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).