Ameris
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Given to girls 82.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2007 · 27 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 361since 1997
Ameris 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #6,517 | 13 |
| 2022 | #5,984 | 20 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #9,714 | 7 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | — | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | — | |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | — | |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 | — | |
| 2011 | #7,118 | 17 | — | |
| 2010 | #6,182 | 21 | — | |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | — | |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 | — | |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 | — | |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 | — | |
| 2005 | #7,891 | 14 | — | |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | — | |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 | — | |
| 2002 | #8,280 | 12 | — | |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | — | |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | — | |
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First appearance
1997
The first year at least five girls were named Ameris! It came in at #13,724, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1997–1999, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ameris is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Ameris in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ameris
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 269 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #13,208)
- 5,649 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #13,208)
- 5,942 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2007 at #5,230 (27 births)
- Births halved by 2014, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 71,208
- Highest: 1 in 71,208 girls born in 2007 were named Ameris (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 41.0% of all girls named Ameris (148) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | #13,724 (1997) | #13,724 |
| 2000s | 138 | #5,230 (2007) | #8,517 |
| 2010s | 148 | #6,182 (2010) | #7,867 |
| 2020s | 70 | #5,984 (2022) | #9,530 |
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.
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