Amaru
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #2,390 for boys in 2025, 57 births
Given to boys 96.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 984since 1996
Amaru over time
Rank among boys' names. Amaru has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #2,390 | 57 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #2,387 | 57 |
| 2022 | — | #2,753 | 47 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #2,253 | 62 |
| 2020 | — | #2,264 | 60 | |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 | #2,694 | 47 |
| 2018 | — | #2,994 | 39 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,123 | 37 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,681 | 29 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,982 | 26 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,138 | 24 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,189 | 34 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,059 | 37 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,510 | 30 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,831 | 27 | |
| 2008 | — | #5,487 | 16 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,243 | 23 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,001 | 24 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,447 | 28 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,697 | 39 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,119 | 30 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,794 | 22 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,142 | 14 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,588 | 12 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,162 | 17 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,546 | 31 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Amaru! It came in at #7,136, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Amaru is popular in 2002
No state had 5 or more boys named Amaru in 2002, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Amaru
- 20 spots since 2024 (#2,370 → #2,390)
- 126 spots since 2020 (#2,264 → #2,390)
- 1,592 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #2,390)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2021 at #2,253 (62 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,217 boys born in 2021 were named Amaru (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 29,966 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.8% of all boys named Amaru (342) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 79 | #2,546 (1997) | #4,259 |
| 2000s | 235 | #2,697 (2004) | #4,135 |
| 2010s | 328 | #2,694 (2019) | #3,436 |
| 2020s | 342 | #2,253 (2021) | #2,403 |
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.
Amaru in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 88,251 of them was named Amaru, which outranked 69.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,670Yonah23
- #3,670Zaveon23
- #3,670Zayvion23
- #3,794Amaru22
- #3,794Amrit22
- #3,794Arin22
- #3,794Artur22
- #3,909Abdias21
- #3,909Abdulaziz21
- #3,909Abrahim21
Tied with 114 names at #3,794; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.