Amaryllis
#2,438 for girls in 2025, 73 births
- Peak · girls
- 1927 · 45 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,852since 1926
Amaryllis over time
Rank among girls' names. Amaryllis 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,438 | 73 |
| 2024 | #2,694 | 64 |
| 2023 | #2,442 | 73 |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 |
| 2021 | #2,533 | 69 |
| 2020 | #2,631 | 64 |
| 2019 | #2,561 | 68 |
| 2018 | #2,584 | 67 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 |
| 2016 | #3,379 | 47 |
| 2015 | #2,555 | 70 |
| 2014 | #3,272 | 49 |
| 2013 | #3,123 | 52 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 |
| 2010 | #5,602 | 24 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #5,013 | 29 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 |
| 2003 | #5,419 | 22 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 |
| 1995 | #5,677 | 16 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #4,496 | 19 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | — | |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
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| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
| 1950 | #3,423 | 10 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 |
| 1937 | #2,317 | 13 |
| 1936 | #2,032 | 15 |
| 1935 | #2,926 | 9 |
| 1934 | #1,834 | 18 |
| 1933 | #1,835 | 18 |
| 1932 | #1,877 | 18 |
| 1931 | #1,941 | 17 |
| 1930 | #1,569 | 25 |
| 1929 | #1,447 | 28 |
| 1928 | #1,502 | 28 |
| 1927 | #1,139 | 45 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Amaryllis! It came in at #3,873, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1939–1940, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Amaryllis is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,545 · 1 in 10,845
- California#2,093 · 1 in 17,969
- Texas#2,386 · 1 in 20,068
Best ever in a state: #850 in Texas, 1927.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,545 | 8 | 1 in 10,845 |
| California | #2,093 | 9 | 1 in 17,969 |
| Texas | #2,386 | 8 | 1 in 20,068 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Amaryllis
- 256 spots since 2024 (#2,694 → #2,438)
- 193 spots since 2020 (#2,631 → #2,438)
- 117 spots since 2015 (#2,555 → #2,438)
- Debuted 1926
- Peaked 1927 at #1,139 (45 births)
- Births halved by 1931, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,981 girls born in 2023 were named Amaryllis (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,017 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,139 in 1927, was only 1 in 26,498 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.2% of all girls named Amaryllis (503) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 108 | #1,139 (1927) | #1,990 |
| 1930s | 144 | #1,569 (1930) | #2,101 |
| 1940s | 65 | #3,132 (1945) | #3,825 |
| 1950s | 28 | #3,423 (1950) | #4,659 |
| 1960s | 31 | #4,723 (1969) | #6,145 |
| 1970s | 100 | #4,534 (1971) | #5,595 |
| 1980s | 110 | #3,424 (1987) | #6,626 |
| 1990s | 150 | #4,650 (1991) | #6,420 |
| 2000s | 201 | #4,906 (2002) | #6,481 |
| 2010s | 503 | #2,555 (2015) | #3,552 |
| 2020s | 412 | #2,438 (2025) | #2,549 |
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.
Amaryllis in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
More about 2025
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1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 22,017 of them was named Amaryllis, which outranked 85.9% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #2,410Westlynn74
- #2,410Zeina74
- #2,410Zissy74
- #2,438Amaryllis73
- #2,438Amaira73
- #2,438Ameerah73
- #2,438Aminata73
- #2,458Aiyla72
- #2,458Alanis72
- #2,458Averly72
Tied with 19 names at #2,438; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.