Amarah
#1,186 for girls in 2025, 195 births
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 206 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,641since 1989
Amarah over time
Rank among girls' names. Amarah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,186 | 195 |
| 2024 | #1,341 | 170 |
| 2023 | #1,548 | 137 |
| 2022 | #1,463 | 151 |
| 2021 | #1,379 | 159 |
| 2020 | #1,334 | 165 |
| 2019 | #1,161 | 206 |
| 2018 | #1,299 | 175 |
| 2017 | #1,400 | 164 |
| 2016 | #1,693 | 126 |
| 2015 | #2,113 | 91 |
| 2014 | #2,194 | 86 |
| 2013 | #2,408 | 75 |
| 2012 | #2,770 | 63 |
| 2011 | #2,868 | 60 |
| 2010 | #2,670 | 67 |
| 2009 | #2,614 | 70 |
| 2008 | #3,120 | 54 |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 |
| 2006 | #2,940 | 58 |
| 2005 | #3,009 | 53 |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 |
| 2002 | #3,810 | 34 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #4,955 | 21 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
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| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amarah! It came in at #12,362, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1993, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Amarah is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#632 · 1 in 3,068
- Indiana#735 · 1 in 3,787
- Arizona#859 · 1 in 4,420
- Pennsylvania#940 · 1 in 5,761
- Ohio#1,151 · 1 in 7,438
Best ever in a state: #372 in Nebraska, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #632 | 8 | 1 in 3,068 |
| Indiana | #735 | 8 | 1 in 3,787 |
| Arizona | #859 | 7 | 1 in 4,420 |
| Pennsylvania | #940 | 9 | 1 in 5,761 |
| Ohio | #1,151 | 7 | 1 in 7,438 |
| Michigan | #1,278 | 5 | 1 in 8,414 |
| New York | #1,573 | 8 | 1 in 11,230 |
| Illinois | #1,607 | 5 | 1 in 11,525 |
| Florida | #1,630 | 7 | 1 in 12,387 |
| California | #1,653 | 15 | 1 in 13,581 |
| Texas | #2,856 | 6 | 1 in 27,882 |
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See more about Amarah
- 155 spots since 2024 (#1,341 → #1,186)
- 148 spots since 2020 (#1,334 → #1,186)
- 927 spots since 2015 (#2,113 → #1,186)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2019 at #1,161 (206 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,147 girls born in 2019 were named Amarah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,242 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 42.1% of all girls named Amarah (1,113) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #12,362 (1989) | #12,362 |
| 1990s | 110 | #4,955 (1998) | #7,550 |
| 2000s | 436 | #2,614 (2009) | #3,873 |
| 2010s | 1,113 | #1,161 (2019) | #2,058 |
| 2020s | 977 | #1,186 (2025) | #1,375 |
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.
Amarah in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 14,064 of them was named Amarah, which outranked 91.0% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,684Shaylee127
- #1,684Sia127
- #1,684Yarely127
- #1,693Amarah126
- #1,693Alyse126
- #1,693Faigy126
- #1,693Gracen126
- #1,704Cooper125
- #1,704Emme125
- #1,704Hayleigh125
Tied with 10 names at #1,693; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.