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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. 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 | #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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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 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- District of Columbia#222 · 1 in 847
- South Carolina#320 · 1 in 1,643
- Mississippi#359 · 1 in 1,748
- Arizona#364 · 1 in 2,170
- Maryland#382 · 1 in 2,300
Best ever in a state: #168 in Rhode Island, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | #222 | 5 | 1 in 847 |
| South Carolina | #320 | 14 | 1 in 1,643 |
| Mississippi | #359 | 9 | 1 in 1,748 |
| Arizona | #364 | 20 | 1 in 2,170 |
| Maryland | #382 | 13 | 1 in 2,300 |
| North Carolina | #440 | 19 | 1 in 2,932 |
| Arkansas | #451 | 6 | 1 in 2,535 |
| Illinois | #460 | 25 | 1 in 2,990 |
| Michigan | #462 | 17 | 1 in 3,024 |
| Alabama | #508 | 8 | 1 in 3,138 |
| Georgia | #546 | 18 | 1 in 3,399 |
| Pennsylvania | #547 | 15 | 1 in 4,258 |
| Ohio | #552 | 15 | 1 in 4,296 |
| Louisiana | #572 | 8 | 1 in 3,144 |
| Indiana | #583 | 9 | 1 in 4,254 |
| Virginia | #641 | 9 | 1 in 4,775 |
| Wisconsin | #642 | 6 | 1 in 4,893 |
| New York | #683 | 20 | 1 in 5,456 |
| Florida | #745 | 17 | 1 in 5,912 |
| California | #747 | 33 | 1 in 7,702 |
| Tennessee | #754 | 6 | 1 in 6,286 |
| New Jersey | #774 | 7 | 1 in 6,512 |
| Texas | #1,027 | 17 | 1 in 11,129 |
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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
- 254 spots since 2024 (#2,078 → #2,332)
- 1,160 spots since 2020 (#1,172 → #2,332)
- 1,501 spots since 2015 (#831 → #2,332)
- Biggest jump: 528 spots in 2005 (#1,159 → #631)
- Biggest drop: 249 spots in 2014 (#598 → #847)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2011 at #427 (639 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2005–2016
- 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%)
- 55.3% of all boys named Amare (3,401) were born in this decade
- 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.
Amare in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 90,045 of them was named Amare, which outranked 69.0% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,130Zarianna22
- #6,130Zarya22
- #6,130Zyana22
- #6,350Amare21
- #6,350Aadya21
- #6,350Aayushi21
- #6,350Abi21
- #6,559Abygale20
- #6,559Adaliz20
- #6,559Adriel20
Tied with 208 names at #6,350; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 5,715 of them was named Amare, which outranked 95.4% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).