Amare
- #14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- #2,332 for boys in 2025, 59 births
- Given to boys 94.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 639 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,150since 1997
Amare over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #14,942 | 5 | #2,332 | 59 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #2,078 | 72 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #1,754 | 93 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #1,574 | 112 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #1,170 | 168 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #1,172 | 164 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 | #1,177 | 164 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #1,036 | 196 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 | #1,016 | 199 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #985 | 207 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #831 | 270 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 | #847 | 264 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #598 | 423 |
| 2012 | #4,957 | 28 | #498 | 534 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #427 | 639 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 | #509 | 505 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #657 | 377 |
| 2008 | #6,350 | 21 | #678 | 357 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 | #645 | 376 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 | #789 | 262 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #631 | 347 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,159 | 135 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 | #1,024 | 154 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #8,110 | 6 |
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First appearance
1997
The first year at least five boys were named Amare! It came in at #8,110, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1997–1999, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
Where Amare is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,576 | 6 | 1 in 14,070 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Amare
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,160 spots since 2020 (#1,172 → #2,332)
- Biggest jump: 528 spots in 2005
- Biggest drop: 249 spots in 2014
Rise & fade · boys
14 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2011 at #427 (639 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 12 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2005–2016
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,972
- Highest: 1 in 2,972 boys born in 2011 were named Amare (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,950 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 55.3% of all boys named Amare (3,401) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 20 | #6,843 (1998) | #7,886 |
| 2000s | 2,061 | #631 (2005) | #2,016 |
| 2010s | 3,401 | #427 (2011) | #792 |
| 2020s | 668 | #1,170 (2021) | #1,680 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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