Amare

Where Amare comes from

The dictionaries list Amare as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1997
    First appearance
    #8,110 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2011
    Peak, #427
    639 babies named Amare — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #847.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Amare turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.