Amara
#98 for girls in 2025, 2,630 births · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 2,630 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 28,982since 1961
Amara over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #98 | 2,630 | #8,243 | 9 |
| 2024 | #121 | 2,296 | #6,832 | 12 |
| 2023 | #123 | 2,282 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #141 | 2,049 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #142 | 1,924 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #142 | 1,920 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #140 | 1,998 | #7,173 | 11 |
| 2018 | #189 | 1,588 | #5,770 | 15 |
| 2017 | #206 | 1,500 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #301 | 1,085 | #7,157 | 11 |
| 2015 | #459 | 691 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #511 | 607 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #578 | 497 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #571 | 514 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #587 | 491 | #8,767 | 8 |
| 2010 | #654 | 447 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #586 | 516 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #576 | 535 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #577 | 522 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #573 | 511 | #10,662 | 6 |
| 2005 | #571 | 501 | #6,634 | 11 |
| 2004 | #607 | 456 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #652 | 406 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #790 | 297 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #870 | 263 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #796 | 287 | #8,209 | 7 |
| 1999 | #1,033 | 197 | #8,704 | 6 |
| 1998 | #1,078 | 180 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | #1,110 | 169 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,215 | 146 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #1,229 | 139 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,400 | 115 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,518 | 103 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #1,422 | 114 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,463 | 108 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,253 | 131 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,750 | 77 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,863 | 66 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #1,748 | 68 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,809 | 62 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,135 | 46 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,492 | 38 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,488 | 38 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,909 | 27 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,287 | 21 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,811 | 26 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,556 | 29 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #3,543 | 17 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,373 | 19 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,577 | 17 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 | — | |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amara! It came in at #6,567, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1966, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amara is popular in 1980
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#1,665 · 1 in 21,713
Best ever in a state: #25 in New Mexico, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,665 | 8 | 1 in 21,713 |
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See more about Amara
- 23 spots since 2024 (#121 → #98)
- 44 spots since 2020 (#142 → #98)
- 361 spots since 2015 (#459 → #98)
- Biggest jump: 237 spots in 2000 (#1,033 → #796)
- Biggest drop: 74 spots in 2001 (#796 → #870)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2025 at #98 (2,630 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 2025
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2000–2025
- Highest: 1 in 611 girls born in 2025 were named Amara (0.16%)
- 45.2% of all girls named Amara (13,101) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30 | #4,418 (1969) | #5,544 |
| 1970s | 214 | #2,556 (1974) | #3,375 |
| 1980s | 523 | #1,748 (1987) | #2,156 |
| 1990s | 1,402 | #1,033 (1999) | #1,272 |
| 2000s | 4,294 | #571 (2005) | #660 |
| 2010s | 9,418 | #140 (2019) | #420 |
| 2020s | 13,101 | #98 (2025) | #128 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Amara in 1980
Top girls' names in 1980
More about 1980
girls
1,660,307 girls got a published name in 1980; 1 in 53,558 of them was named Amara, which outranked 76.4% of the 12,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,800Tremaine32
- #2,800Tynesha32
- #2,800Tywana32
- #2,866Amara31
- #2,866Adena31
- #2,866Alyce31
- #2,866Ariella31
- #2,940Abbigail30
- #2,940Alex30
- #2,940Aqueelah30
Tied with 73 names at #2,866; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.