Meaning not yet researched.
Amaryllis: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,139 in 1927.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,139 in 1927; #2,439 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Amaryllis in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,439 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1927, at #1,139.
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Amaryllis: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,139 in 1927 · most girls in one year: 73 (2025).
In 2025, 73 US girls were named Amaryllis, making it the 2,439th most common girls’ name of the year, up 256 places from #2,695 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 64 girls named Amaryllis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,139, reached in 1927. The most girls given the name in a single year was 73, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,558 in 2015 and #3,431 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Amaryllis in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 7 babies. In all, 1,852 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 503 babies named Amaryllis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 661 US girls were named Amaryllis; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,017 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Amaryllis ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,553 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Amarylis, Amarelis and Amarillys are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Amarylis (148), Amarelis (49), Amarillys (5).
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 Amaryllis 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,553 | — |
| California | 9 | #2,105 | #2,510 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,403 | #2,602 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 2023 | 73 | #2,446 | — | — |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 2020 | 64 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,562 | — | — |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,585 | — | — |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,558 | — | — |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,276 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,125 | — | — |
| 2012 | 36 | #4,128 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,745 | — | — |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,613 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,943 | — | — |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,020 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,241 | — | — |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,326 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,167 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,793 | — | — |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,434 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,911 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #6,974 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,205 | — | — |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,527 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,815 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,893 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,078 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,689 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,634 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,758 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,063 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,657 | — | — |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,299 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,058 | — | — |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,501 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,176 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,475 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,328 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,493 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,159 | — | — |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,199 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,712 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,971 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,909 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,610 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,534 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,733 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,882 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,118 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,539 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,073 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,270 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,826 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,581 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,404 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,902 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,931 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,431 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,431 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,900 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,140 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,071 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,215 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,971 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,379 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,584 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,932 | — | — |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,837 | — | — |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1931 | 17 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,571 | — | — |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,139 | — | — |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,884 | — | — |
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).