Amara
Amara was given to 2,630 girls in 2025, #98 among girls’ names; 29,279 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 29,000 Americans named Amara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Amara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Amara mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Amara is “a female given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage taken from fantasy fiction; explained, for example, as a Sanskrit word for “eternal”.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Amara?
#98 among girls’ names, 2025
Amara rose from #459 in 2015 to #98 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.39 to 1.6 per 1,000.
2,639 babies in 2025, the peak
Amara peaked in 2025, when 2,639 babies were given it (2,630 girls, #98 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 2,296 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,630 | #98 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 2,296 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 2,282 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 2022 | 2,049 | #141 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 1,924 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 1,920 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 1,998 | #140 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 1,588 | #189 | 0.93 |
| 2017 | 1,500 | #206 | 0.87 |
| 2016 | 1,085 | #301 | 0.61 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 691 | #459 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 607 | #511 | 0.34 |
| 2013 | 497 | #578 | 0.28 |
| 2012 | 514 | #571 | 0.29 |
| 2011 | 491 | #587 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 447 | #654 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 516 | #586 | 0.28 |
| 2008 | 535 | #576 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 522 | #577 | 0.27 |
| 2006 | 511 | #573 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 501 | #571 | 0.27 |
| 2004 | 456 | #607 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 406 | #652 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 297 | #790 | 0.17 |
| 2001 | 263 | #870 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 287 | #797 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 197 | #1,031 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 180 | #1,077 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 169 | #1,110 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 146 | #1,213 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 139 | #1,227 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 115 | #1,397 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,516 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 114 | #1,420 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,461 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 131 | #1,249 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,746 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,860 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,748 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,837 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,809 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,574 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 46 | #2,134 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,493 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 38 | #2,491 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,868 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,863 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,687 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,910 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,290 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,812 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 29 | #2,557 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,159 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,548 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,375 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,584 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,429 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,157 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,591 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Amara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 29,279 Americans recorded as Amara, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 2,630 girls and 9 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Amara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Amara, and how old are they?
29,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 29,279 Americans ever recorded as Amara. The median Amara alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 15,327 people named Amara (14,783 women and girls, 544 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,454 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,330 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 21,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Amara born?
The states with the most babies named Amara are California, Texas and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 327 | #92 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 299 | #92 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 208 | #76 | 1.0× |
| New York | 125 | #124 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 90 | #95 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 90 | #95 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 89 | #119 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | #120 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 71 | #139 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 70 | #87 | 1.1× |
Where Amara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Amara is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1961 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Amara with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 88,604 babies since 1880, Amara is the most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,639 of their 7,674 babies (34%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Amara
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Amara and names like it
- Compare Amara and AmiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAmara peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Amara since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Amara: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Amara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Amara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.