Meaning not yet researched.
Amaru: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 57 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,254 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,254 in 2021; #2,390 in 2025. About 84% of babies named Amaru in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,390 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,254.
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Amaru: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 57 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,254 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 62 (2021).
In 2025, 57 US boys were named Amaru, making it the 2,390th most common boys’ name of the year, down 17 places from #2,373 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 59 boys named Amaru in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,254, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 62. For comparison, it was #3,989 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Amaru, making it the 8,897th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,286 places from #11,183 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 8 girls named Amaru in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8,897, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 11. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amaru in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 7 babies. In all, 1,025 US babies have been given the name, 4.0% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 375 babies named Amaru.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 494 US boys were named Amaru; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 62. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,966 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amaru ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,355 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Amari (53,282 babies since 1880) and Amar (5,334 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Amaru 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,355 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,365 | #2,575 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,897 | 57 | #2,390 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,183 | 59 | #2,373 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,373 | 57 | #2,387 |
| 2022 | — | — | 47 | #2,754 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,423 | 62 | #2,254 |
| 2020 | — | — | 60 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,425 | 47 | #2,698 |
| 2018 | — | — | 39 | #2,996 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,129 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,686 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2014 | — | — | 24 | #4,140 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,189 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,062 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,514 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #3,998 |
| 2009 | — | — | 27 | #3,838 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,500 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,246 |
| 2006 | — | — | 24 | #4,005 |
| 2005 | — | — | 28 | #3,454 |
| 2004 | — | — | 39 | #2,698 |
| 2003 | — | — | 30 | #3,122 |
| 2002 | — | — | 22 | #3,794 |
| 2001 | — | — | 14 | #5,152 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,597 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,163 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,194 |
| 1997 | — | — | 31 | #2,550 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,162 |
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).