Amaranta — girls' name
148 babies named Amaranta in U.S. Social Security records since 1993, with the highest year being 1994. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
148 girls have been named Amaranta since 1993, peaking in the 1990s, last recorded in 2025.
- 148
- total births
- 1993–2025
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 43%
- born in that decade
43% of everyone ever named Amaranta was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Amaranta in 1994 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Amaranta
The Social Security Administration has registered 148 babies named Amaranta between 1993 and 2025, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amaranta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Amaranta performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 63 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Amaranta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Amaranta in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Amaranta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 148 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Amaranta at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Amaranta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–1993
- Peak year (1994)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 33 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
148 total births across 33 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1994 with 13 births in a single year.
Amaranta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 63 births that decade — 43% of Amaranta's all-time total
Amaranta decade highlights
- Peak decade 63 births
- Runner-up 48 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Amaranta's strongest decade
63 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 43% of all-time use.
Amaranta by state
Where Amaranta concentrates geographically — total births since 1993
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 14 | 9.5% |
14 of 148 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 9.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 9.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1993–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.